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Nhằm giúp các bạn đang chuẩn bị bước vào kì thi quốc tế có thêm tài liệu ôn tập, TaiLieu.VN giới thiệu đến các bạn IELTS Academic Reading Sample 45 để ôn tập nắm vững kiến thức cũng như giúp các bạn được làm quen trước với các dạng câu hỏi đề thi giúp các bạn tự tin hơn khi bước vào kì thi chính thức. | Giving The Brain A Workout Mental agility does not have to decline with age as long as you keep exercising your mind says Anna van Praagh. A Use your brain and it will grow it really will. This is the message from neuropsychologist Ian Robertson professor of psychology at Trinity College Dublin and founding director of the university s Institute of Neuroscience. His book Puzzler Brain Trainer 90-Day Workout contains puzzles which he devised to stretch sharpen and stimulate the brain. The puzzles from memory jogs to Sudoku to crosswords to number games are all-encompassing and have been specially formulated to improve each and every part of the brain from visual- spatial ability to perception attention memory numerical agility problem-solving and language. B Professor Robertson has been studying the brain for 57 years in a career dedicated to changing and improving the way it works. During this time there has been a remarkable paradigm shift in the way scientists view the brain he says. When I first started teaching and researching a very pessimistic view prevailed that from the age of three or four we were continually losing brain cells and that the stocks couldn t be replenished. That has turned out to be factually wrong. Now that we know that the brain is quot plastic quot it changes adapts and is physically sharpened according to the experiences it has. C Robertson likens our minds to trees in a park with branches spreading out connecting and intertwining with connections increasing in direct correlation to usage. He says that the eureka moment in his career and the reason he devised his brain trainer puzzles was the realisation that the connections multiply with use and so it is possible to boost and improve our mental functions at any age. Now we know that it s not just children whose brains are quot plastic quot he says. No matter how old we are our brains are physically changed by what we do and what we think. 1 D Robertson illustrates his point by .
