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Part Two. Care and Feeding of the Brain: The Basics

Barberger-Gateau, P., et al. “Dietary Patterns and Risk of Dementia.”
Neurology
, November 13, 2007.

Carroll, Linda. “To Sleep, Perchance to Cure.”
Neurology Today
, July-August 2006.

Colcombe, Stanley J., et al. “Aerobic Exercise Training Increases Brain Volume in Aging Humans.”
Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences
, November 2006.

Korman, M. “Behavioral Interference Selectively Blocks the Evolution of Delayed Gains, but Can Be Countered by Daytime Sleep.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2006, program 366.21.

Kramer, Arthur. “Exercise, Cognition, and the Aging Brain.”
Journal of Applied Physiology
, June 15, 2006.

Miller, Greg. “Hunting for Meaning After Midnight.” S
cience
315 (March 9, 2007).

Morris, M. C. “Associations of Vegetable and Fruit Consumption with Age-Related Cognitive Change.”
Neurology
, October 2, 2006.

Nishida, M. “Daytime Naps, Sleep Spindles, and Motor Memory Consolidation.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2006, program 506.7.

Phillips, Lisa. “A Mediterranean Diet Is Associated with Living Longer with Alzheimer Disease.”
Neurology Today
, September 18, 2007.

Rubin, Jay.
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words.
Vintage, 2003.

Scarmeas, N. “Mediterranean Diet and Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease.”
Annals of Neurology
, June 2006.

Sheth, B. R. “Practice Makes Imperfect: Restorative Effects of Sleep on Motor Learning.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2006, program 14-14.

Walker, Matthew P. “Sleep to Remember.”
American Scientist
94 (July-August 2006).

Walker, Matthew P., and Robert Stickgold. “Sleep, Memory, and Plasticity.”
Annual Review of Psychology
, 2006.

Part Three. Specific Steps for Enhancing Your Brain’s Performance

Baldo, Juliana V., et al. “Verbal and Design Fluency in Patients with Frontal Lobe Lesions.”
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
7 (2001).

Butterworth, Brian. “What Makes a Prodigy?”
Nature Neuroscience
4 (2001).

“Chess for Drudges?”
Science Journal
137 (September 21, 2007).

Ericsson, K. Anders. “Attaining Excellence Through Deliberate Practice: Insights from the Study of Expert Performance.” In M. Ferrari, ed.,
The Pursuit of Excellence in Education.
Erlbaum, 2002.

Ericsson, K. Anders. “Deliberate Practice and the Modifiability of Body and Mind: Toward a Science of the Structure and Acquisition of Expert and Elite Performance.”
International Journal of Sports Psychology
, 2007.

Ericsson, K. Anders. “Exceptional Memorizers: Made, Not Born.”
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
7, no. 6 (June, 2003).

Ericsson, K. Anders. “The Path to Expert Golf Performance: Insights from the Masters on How to Improve Performance by Deliberate Practice.” In P. R. Thomas, ed.,
Optimizing Performance in Golf.
Academic Press, 2002.

Ericsson, K. Anders. “Protocol Analysis and Expert Thought: Concurrent Verbalizations of Thinking During Experts’ Performance on Representative Tasks.” In
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance.
Cambridge University Press,
2006.

Flynn, James R.
What Is Intelligence?
Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Hilts, Philip J.
Memory’s Ghost: The Nature of Memory and the Strange Tale of Mr. M.
Simon & Schuster, 1985.

Kaul, P. “Psychomotor Vigilance Changes Following Meditation, Nap, Caffeine, or Exercise.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2006, program 361.2.

Kerr, C. E., et al. “Tactile Acuity in Tai Chi Practitioners.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2007, presentation 74.1.

Salthouse, T. A. “Effects of Age and Skill in Typing.”
Journal of Experimental Psychology
13 (1984).

Shur, Norman W.
2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words.
Galahad, 1994.

Tammet, Daniel.
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant.
Free Press, 2006.

Walker, Matthew P. “The Role of Sleep in Human Memory Consolidation and Reconsolidation.” In the mini-symposium “The Dynamic Nature of Memory.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2006.

Walker, Matthew P., and Robert Stickgold. “Sleep, Memory, and Plasticity.”
Annual Review of Psychology
, 2006.

Part Four. Using Technology to Achieve a More Powerful Brain

Donath, Judith. “Virtually Trustworthy.”
Science
137 (July 6, 2007).

Granek, J. A., et al. “The Effects of Video Game Experience on the Cortical Networks for Increasingly Complex Visuomotor Tasks.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2007, program 8.24.

Graziano, Michael S. A. “Where Is My Arm? The Relative Role of Vision and Proprioception in the Neuronal Representation of Limb Position.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
, August 1999.

Green, C. Shawn, and Daphne Bavelier. “The Cognitive Neuroscience of Video Games.” In P. Messaris and L. Humphries, eds.,
Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication.
Peter Lang, 2006.

Larson, Christine. “Calisthenics for the Older Mind on the Home Computer.”
The New York Times
, August 26, 2007.

Schiesel, Seth. “Another World Conquered by Video Games: Retirees.”
The New York Times
, March 30, 2007.

Stein, Rob. “Real Hope in a Virtual World: Online Identities Leave Limitations Behind.”
The Washington Post
, October 6, 2007.

Part Five. Fashioning the Creative Brain

Balzac, Fred. “Exploring the Brain’s Role in Creativity.”
Neuropsychiatry Review
7, no. 5 (May 2006).

Bell, Madison Smartt.
Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form.
W. W. Norton, 1997.

Book, David L.
Problems for Puzzle Busters.
Enigmatic Press, 1992.

Bottini, G., et al. “The Role of the Right Hemisphere in the Interpretation of Figurative Aspects of Language: A Positron Emission Tomography Activation Study.”
Brain
117 (1994).

Bowden, E. M., et al. “Aha! Insight Experience Correlates with Solution Activation in the Right Hemisphere.”
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
10 (2003).

Bowden, E. M., et al. “New Approaches to Demystifying Insight.”
Trends in Cognitive Science
9 (2005).

Duch, W. “Brain-Inspired Conscious Computing Architecture.”
Journal of Mind and Behavior
26 (2003).

Eich, T. S. “fMRI Investigation of the Neural Bases of Deliberative Versus Intuitive Decisions.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2006, presentation 664.6.

Geake, J. G. “Functional Neural Correlates of Creative Intelligence as Determined by Fluid Analogizing.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2006, presentation 664.1.

Jung-Beeman, Mark, et al. “Neural Activity When People Solve Verbal Problems with Insight.”
PLoS Biology
2, no. 4 (April 2004).

Mosley, Walter.
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Little, Brown, 2007.

Restak, Richard. “The Creativity of the Unconscious.” In
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Sternberg, R. J, ed.
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Part Six. Impediments to Optimal Brain Function, and How to Compensate for Them

“Aging Population Is a Critical Business Issue.”
Managing the Mature Work Force.
The Conference Board, 2005.

Draganski, Bogdan, et al. “Changes in Gray Matter Induced by Training: Newly Honed Juggling Skills Show Up as a Transient Feature on a Brain Imaging Scan.”
Nature
427 (January 22, 2004).

“Exercising to Keep Aging at Bay.”
Nature Neuroscience
10 (2007).

Jobe, Jared B., et al. “ACTIVE: A Cognitive Intervention Trial to Promote Independence in Older Adults.”
Controlled Clinical Trials 22 (
2001).

Lohr, Steve. “Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic.”
The New York Times
, March 25, 2007.

Melton, Lisa. “Use It, Don’t Lose It.”
New Scientist
, December 17, 2005.

Raber, Jacob. “ApoE4 Affects Spatial Learning and Memory in Children.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2007, program 422.6.

Reiman, Eric. “Higher Midlife Cholesterol Levels Are Associated with Hypometabolism in Brain Regions Affected by Alzheimer’s and Normal Aging.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2007.

Restak, Richard.
Older & Wiser: How to Maintain Peak Mental Ability for As Long As You Live
. Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Richtel, Matt. “Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast.”
The New York Times
, June 14, 2008.

Small, Gary W., et al. “Effects of a 14-Day Healthy Longevity Lifestyle Program on Cognition and Brain Function.”
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
, June 2006.

Stern, Yaakov, et al. “Brain Networks Associated with Cognitive Reserve in Healthy Young and Old Adults.”
Cerebral Cortex
15 (April 2005).

Stone, Kathlyn. “Physical Fitness, Childhood IQ Affect Cognitive Reserve.”
Neurology Review
, November 2006.

Valeo, Tom. “Neural Network Identified for Cognitive Reserve.”
Neurology Today
, September 18, 2007.

Vedantam, Shankar. “Short Mental Workouts May Slow Decline of Aging Minds, Study Finds.”
The Washington Post
, December 20, 2006.

Willis, Sherry L. “Longterm Effects of Cognitive Training on Everyday Functional Outcomes in Older Adults.”
Journal of the American Medical Association
, December 21, 2006.

Wilson, R. S. “Relation of Cognitive Activity to Risk of Developing Alzheimer Disease.”
Neurology
, November 2007.

Yamamura, H., et al. “Differences of Brain Activity Elicited by Different Styles of Art.”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2006, paper 73.7.

Yamamura, H., et al. “Neural Decoding of Artworks: Can Brain Activity Tell Who Painted the Picture, Dalí or Picasso?”
Society for Neuroscience
, 2007, presentation 737.14.

Epilogue: The Twenty-first-Century Brain

Rockwood, Kenneth. “What Metaphor for the Aging Brain?”
Neurology
, November 13, 2007.

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