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Contributes to a fundamental understanding and allover view of the external means of increasing cognitive abilities
Provides the most up-to-date research on the rapidly expanding field of cognitive enhancement
Takes an interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to both students and practitioners of psychology, neuroscience, and sports and exercise science
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Food Supplements—Are We What We Eat?
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Shockingly Electrical—Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
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Neural Entrainment—Synchronous Electrical Activity
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Far Transfer Trainings—Generalizing Learned Skills
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About this book
Featured topics include:
- The effect of caffeine on cognitive abilities.
- Aerobic exercise and its short-term and long-term effects on cognition.
- The effect, if any, of Ritalin and Modafinil on promoting cognitive enhancement.
- Temperature variations and its influences on behavior.
- The effect of food supplements across the lifespan.
"Theory-Driven Approaches to Cognitive Enhancement is a must-have resource for psychologists, physicians, sport and exercise scientists, medical scientists, and teachers".
“This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of different aspects of cognitive enhancement. The chapters are very focused, well-structured, in-depth, and rounded up by excellent illustrations. I highly recommend the book to readers interested in the matter”.
Dr. Julia Karbach, Goethe University
“It is overall a highly original book on a timely topic, with a fresh approach and rich in practical and societal implications. The book is written in a very clear way and it is a pleasure to read.”
Dr. Anna M. Borghi, Sapienza University of Rome
Keywords
- Mens sana in corpore sano
- Music makes the world go round
- Human potential
- Creativity
- Empowerment
- Individual tailoring
- Personal lifestyle
- Healthy living
- Embodied cognition
- Meditation
- Cognitive enhancement
Authors and Affiliations
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Cognitive Psychology Unit and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Lorenza S. Colzato
About the author
Lorenza Colzato, Ph.D., is Professor by Special Appointment of Cognitive Enhancement at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sports and Sport Science at University of Kassel (Germany) and at the Institute of Psychological Research at Leiden University (The Netherlands). Dr. Colzato is a recipient of two Innovational Research Incentives Scheme grants (VENI; VIDI) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. These grants are awarded only to “outstanding individuals of exceptional talent and originality who have a great enthusiasm for the conduct of challenging, groundbreaking research.“ Dr. Colzato is the founding editor and current Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, which publishes articles on enhancement of human perception, attention, memory, cognitive control and action. She published over 150 articles in international peer-reviewed Journals. Her research has been featured by the TIME and in the Huffington Post US.
Dr. Colzato’s current research activities focus on interventions (e.g., brain stimulation, meditation, physical exercise, life style, or food supplements) aimed at enhancing performance in healthy individuals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theory-Driven Approaches to Cognitive Enhancement
Authors: Lorenza S. Colzato
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57505-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57504-9Published: 15 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86180-7Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57505-6Published: 05 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 337
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology