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The Mind Gym
Over the years one picks up ideas and experience. Years ago I noticed that I could imagine physical exercise and find my muscles responding as though I had actually performed physical exercise. Indeed, I tried this with some athletes I worked with, and they found the same to be true. What a fertile area for researchÛbut one needs the subjects, the materials and so forth, so the idea just sort of integrated itself in with other anecdotal observations. Alas, the idea turns out to be more than anecdotal.
Philip Cohen, reporting on the annual Society of Neuroscience in the November issue of New Scientist, called the new findings a Ïcouch potatoes dream.Ó Researchers have discovered that imagining exercise can increase the strength of even large muscles. Using ten volunteers between the ages of 20 and 35 to imagine flexing one of their biceps as hard as possible in imaging sessions five times a week, volunteers showed a 13.5% increase in strength. There was no change for the control group who did not participate in the mental gymnastics. Additionally, the volunteers maintained their strength gain for three months following the end of the mental session.
Researchers controlled for unintentional tensing among volunteers by monitoring electrical impulses at the motor neurons of the volunteers arm muscles. The results suggest, Ïyou can increase muscle strength solely by sending a larger signal to motor neurons from the brain,Ó states Guang Yue at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. (Cohen 2001)
We have had many testimonials on our firm body program, which is directed at imaging a firm, strong body. So, if youÌre a little out of shape, take five minutes a day to imagine a solid workout. The proof is in the puddingÛcheck it out for yourself.
Babies babbling meaningful speech
Our patented technology is in part based on the discovery of reverse speech patterns. Eldon Taylor believes that children all go through a stage where their speech is a sort of bridge from goo-goo, gaa-gaa to what we think of as babbling. Not the coo sounds, but the sounds a child makes when they look you in the eyes and say something that simply does not make sense, but they are saying it quite certain that it should. Every parent has experienced this stage. EldonÌs work, which is well posted on our site, has demonstrated that frequently these sounds can be played in reverse and meaningful language found. The so-called babble talk is really something like, ÏDaddy playÓ or ÏMommy home?Ó
Well, according to some new research, those babble sounds are definitely more than just noise. Researchers at McGill University in Montreal have confirmed that baby babble is Ïabsolutely a linguistic phenomenon,Ó in the words of researcher Laura Ann Petitto. (Travis 2001)
The reverse speech paradigm suggested by Eldon continues to be somewhat contentious, despite hard evidence including taped recordings. Still, the discovery of the shift to left brain controls during language formation found by this new study and itÌs attending Ïbabble from the right side of the mouthÓ (called asymmetric mouth vocalizations) is one step closer to more fully understanding the beginnings of language capacity.
Smell the color
Robert A. Osterbauer of the University of Oxford in England employed a novel brain-imaging study to demonstrate that color influences the perception of smell. The study, reported in Science News by John Travis, Ïoffers a neural explanation for past work that indicated that colors influence perception of the smells.Ó (Travis 2001)
Cohen, P. (2001). Mental gymnastics. New Scientist. 24 Novemeber: 17.
Travis, J. (2001). Babies babble in just the right way. Science News. 160: 347.
Travis, J. (2001). It smells yellow to me. Science News. 160: 347. |
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