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Specific Brain Area Sculpted By Brain Fitness Training For Increased Cognitive Flexibility

Scientific studies make clear the accepted fact that a consistent brain fitness lifestyle can, boost your fluid intelligence, you increase mental energy, prevent or reverse age-related mental declines, and even help you gain a higher I.Q., with the right brain fitness approach. It’s only logical that such significant changes in brain power results in changes to the interconnecting structure of brain cells.

Your learned behaviors, patterns of thought, emotions, reactions, and the embedded probabilities of how you are most likely to handle any situation depends much upon various arrangements of interconnected brain cell structures that you have been built up and conditioned over the years to enable these process to play out. Much the same way a particular engine configuration allows a specific model of car to perform its functions, your brain does the job of ‘being you’ by way of how it is forged by you hereditary traits, subjective experience, and personal knowledge.

As your brain grows stronger and you begin taking proactive control over targeted brain functions in order to carry out brain training techniques, there is a chance you may begin perceiving yourself, people around, and the world in a new light because of increased mental powers. Now, scientists have pinned down one area of the brain that is involved in the kinds of cognitive shifts that occur as a result of strategic brain fitness training and which eventually lead to a skilled talent of consciously adjusting brain state to address changing situations.

In the March 2009 issue of the journal Neuron, Dr. Tsukasa Kamigaki from the Department of Physiology at The University of Tokyo School of Medicine presents research showing that the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is directly involved in major shifts in the allocation and dispensation of mental resources when the brain changes in response to new learning happening as a result of brain fitness training.

One of the requirements for effective brain fitness training is that the techniques have to be unique and novel – something that your brain has not grown overly familiar with or used to doing – so that the learning demand can fire up brain-boosting biochemical processes that make cells stronger and increase the density of connections among them, thus increasing brainpower. As this improves brain functioning, any change in perceptual perspective (such as becoming more confident and optimistic) is the same as a shift in brain state, thus a shift in the use of cognitive resources.

With this shift now being shown to have a physiological home in the PPC, the consistent effort you employ at mentally shifting gears through brain fitness training has a major effect on the gear-shifting mechanism itself. So, you can feel confident knowing that as you train your brain the work you put in has a direct, cell-strengthening, brain-changing effect that makes you better at controlling your state of mind and improves your mental flexibility.