Brain Rules

A

A2i (computer program)

Absenteeism, stress and

Absent-mindedness

Academic performance, factors in

Action recognition

Adaptive software, developing

Addison’s disease

Adrenaline, stress and

Aerobic exercise

Age-related dementia

factors predicting

Alcoholics, gender and

Alerting or Arousal Network

Allostatic load

Alzheimer’s disease

American fitness movement

Amnesia. See also Forgetfulness

male versus female

Anecdotes, business-related

Animals, comparison of brains in wild versus domestic

Animations, computer

Aniston, Jennifer, neuron

Anterograde amnesia

Anthony, William

stress and disorders of

Armstrong, Lance

Armstrong, Neil

Art, capacity for

Association cortices

bait the hook and

emotions in getting

examination of, on clinical level

impact of sleep loss on

multitasking and

need for break and

novel stimuli and

pictures in grabbing

10-minute rule and

Auditory cortex

Auditory information

Autobiographical memories

Automatic processing, encoding and

Awareness, attention and

B

visual processing in

Bait the hook, attention and

Balint’s Syndrome

Battle of the sexes, gender and

influence of culture on

Behavioral genetics

Binding problem

Blocking habits

Blood pressure, stress and

Bodily/kinesthetic intelligence

Boeing Aircraft Company

leadership-training programs of

Bologna, University of

Bottom-up processing, sensory integration and

development of connections

differences in female and male

evolution of human

functional organization and reorganization of

integrative instincts of

malleability of

memory systems in

performance envelope of

role of, in vision

sensitivity to external inputs

triune theory of

Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)

Brain disorders, exercise in treating

Brain power, exercise in boosting

Brain research, advances in

Brand differentiation, use of smell in

Branding, sensory

Bransford, John

Bringing Baby Home

British model, sensory integration and

Business-related anecdotes

Business setting, role of learning in

C

Camel, visual perception of

Cardiovascular fitness

Career, choosing between family and

Cause-and-effect relationships

biological structures of

Central executive in working memory

Charles Bonnet Syndrome, vision and

Children, brains in

matching to work schedules

Cingulate gyrus

Circadian arousal system

gender arrangements in

learning and size of

Cognition, effects of exercise on

Cognitive abilities

Cognitive blessings of exercise

Cognitive effects of physical activity

Cognitive neuroscientists

Cognitive performance, exercise and

Cognitive psychology

Cognitive skills, influence of physical activity on

Coherence principle

College undergraduates, quality of

Combat as smelly experience

Common fate, principle of

Competitive food eaters

Computer animations

Conflict, work-family

Connor, Carol McDonald

Consciousness, neural location of

long-term memory and

Context-dependent learning

influence on perception of stress

Cortisol, stress and

Costanza, George

Counseling, family

Creativity, loss of, and health care expenses

Crime scenes, retrieval and

Critical language area (CLA)

influence of, on behavior

Customized instruction

D

Darwin, Charles

Decision making, role of smell in

Declarative memories

consolidation of

forgetfulness in

odors in retrieving

Declarative processing, forgetting in

Dement, William

Dementia, age-related

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

Details, attention and

Diabetes, risk for

Dilbert (comic)

Discovery-based learning models

exercise and release of

Drug use, gender and

Dual representation

E

Early chronotype

Early long-term potentiation

Ebbinghaus, Hermann

Ecological niche

current system of

factors in academic performance and

Education college of, creation of, to study the brain

Effortful processing, encoding and

Einstein, Albert

Elaborative processing

Elaborative rehearsal

Electrical stimulation mapping

Emotional environment, effect of, on learning performance

Emotional impulses

Emotionally charged events

Emotionally competent stimuli (ECS)

effects of, on motivations

in getting attention

automatic processing and

cracking the code

in declarative memory

effortful processing and

energy transfer in

Environmental cues in encoding and retrieval

Environmental instability

Episodic buffer in working memory

Episodic memory

Ericsson, K. Anders

life-threatening

Evolutionary biologists

Evolution of human brain

Examples, providing in learning

Executive functions

impact of sleep loss on

Executive Network

in boosting brain power

brain-specific effect of

cardiovascular fitness and

cognitive performance and

competitive food eaters and

influence on cognitive skills

integrating, into workday

long-term memory and

role of, on mood

short-term memory and

survival of the fittest and

in treating brain disorders

Exhaustive detail, power of repetition in

Experience-dependent brain wiring

Experience-independent brain wiring

Experimental psychologists

acquisition of information in

evolutionary needs and

as lifetime journey

mirror neurons and

object-orientation

object permanence and

playing pointing game

sense of wonder and

F

False information

recognition memory in explaining

choosing between career and

effects of, life on business life

Fantastic Voyage (Kleiner)

Fast consolidation

Fatal Familial Insomnia

Females. See Gender; Women

Fight or flight response

Fischer, Edmond

Fluid intelligence

Fogassi, Leonardo

Forgetfulness. See also Amnesia

in declarative memory

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Goodall)

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

G

Gaps, filling in missing

Gardner, Howard

Gazing behavior

Gender. See also Men; Women acute stress and

battle of the sexes and

cementing relationships and

characterizing behaviors specific to

dealing with traumatic situations

division of differences in

mental retardation and

nature or nurture debate and

negotiating status and

performance gap and

schizophrenia and

teams in workplace

verbal communication and

General dementia, lifetime risk of

General math knowledge, impact of sleep loss on

brain’s need for

Goldilocks Effect

Goldin, Claudia

Goods, improving access to

Gould, Stephen Jay

Grade level expectations, learning and

Grades, effects of stress on

Griffey, Ken, Jr.

Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)

H

Hayden, Stephen

Healthy insomnia

Hearing, multimedia and

Heart disease, risk for

Henry VIII, King of England

Heston, Charleton

Home, stress in

Homeostatic sleep drive

Homework, need for

Honey, I Shrunk the Submarine

Hormones, stress

How People Learn

Humankind, development of

Human pregnancies, risks in

Humans, acquisition of knowledge by

Hypothalamus, stress and

Hypothesis testing, exploration and

I

Identical twins, brain wiring in

Images, testing power of

Immediate memory, impact of sleep loss on

Immune response, stress and

Immune system, stress and

Individuality of wiring

acquisition of information by

hypothesis testing by

object orientation and

object permanence and

testing of new information by

tongue testing and

exploration in acquisition of

picture transfer of

processing of newly acquired

repeated exposure to

timing of, and learning

timing of re-exposure

Input, spacing out, and retrieval

Insomnia, healthy

Instruction, customized

Intellectual dexterity

Intellectual progress

Intellectual variability

Intelligence quotient (IQ) tests

Interest, attention and

International Federation of Competitive Eating

Interpersonal intelligence

Intervention strategies

Intrapersonal intelligence

Intrinsic Alertness

J

Job performance, stress and

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, need for nap

Jordan, Michael, athletic failures of

K

Kleitman, Nathaniel

Knowledge, acquisition of, by humans

Knowledge base, retrieval and

Kobayashi, Takeru “Tsunami,”

L

Laboratory school, creation of, at University of Chicago

mapping of brain and processing of

Late chronotypes

Late long-term potentiation

Learned helplessness

in business setting

context-dependent

customized instruction and

effect of emotional environment on performance

grade level expectations and

importance of sleep to

multimedia exposure and

multiple cues in

multiple intelligences and

in multisensory environment

need for homework and

review holidays and

school systems and

timing of information and

traumatic stress and

Learning models

discovery-based

Left brain/right brain personalities

Left hemisphere

Left inferior prefrontal cortex

Library model, retrieval and

Life-threatening events

Light, vision and

Logical/mathematical intelligence

Logical reasoning ability, impact of sleep loss on

Long-term memory

consolidation and

Long-term potentiation (LTP)

M

Maintaining attention

Malacrane, Vincenzo

Males. See Gender; Men

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Sacks)

Marital conflict, unresolved, and stress

Marital stress, effect on academic performance

Marriage intervention

Mass customization

Massed learning

Mathematically, capacity to reason

Math knowledge, impact of sleep loss on

Maugham, W. Somerset

rules for multimedia presentation

Maze-pattern sequence

McAdam, John Loudon

McGurk effect, sensory integration and

Medial temporal lobe

Medical-school model, components of

Medical schools, analyzing success of

Medina Grump Factor (MCF)

autobiographical

effects on vision

hippocampus and

long-term potentiation and

metaphor for birth of

mumbo jumbo and

repeating information in timed intervals

separation of, from retrieval

smell in evoking memory

stress and formation of

Memory trace, storage of

Men. See also Gender

Mendeleyev, Dimitri Ivanovich

Mental retardation, gender and

Mesulam, Marcel

Micro-hibernation

Mirror neurons, exploration and

Mistakes, learning from

Modality principle

impact of sleep loss on

role of exercise on

Motivations, effect of emotions on

Motor adaptations

Motor sequencing

Multimedia exposure, link between learning and

Multimedia principle

Multimodal reinforcement, sensory integration and

Multiple Intelligences movement

Multiple reinstatements

Multisensory environment, learning in

Multisensory inputs, benefits of

Multisensory school lessons

Multitasking, attention and

Mumbo jumbo, memory and

Musical/rhythmic intelligence

Myers-Briggs personality tests

N

Najdorf, Miguel

benefits of taking

National Napping Day

Nature or nurture debate, gender and

Negotiating status, gender and

Neural location of consciousness

Neural road map

visual receptor

Neurotransmitters

Neurotrophins, stress and

Nondeclarative memories

Norepinephrine, exercise and release of

Novel stimuli, attention and

Nuclear annihilation

O

Object-orientation

Object permanence

Odors in retrieving declarative memory

Of Human Bondage (movie)

Ojemann, George

Olfactory epithelium

Olfactory region

Opponent process model

Oral presentations

Orienting Network

brain’s need for

P

Paleomammalian brain

Pattern matching

Payne, William H.

Performance envelope

Performance gap, gender and

Phantom-limb experiences

Phasic Alertness

Phonemic encoding

Phonological loop in working memory

Phospholipid bilayer

Physical activity

cognitive effects of

influence on cognitive skills

Physical education, elimination from curriculum

Physical health, stress and

Pictorial superiority effect (PSE), vision and

communication with

in grabbing attention

retrieval of recognition information

Pointing game, playing

Posner, Michael

Post-synaptic neurons

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

PowerPoint, vision and

Prefrontal cortex

Presynaptic neuron

Problem-based learning models

Problem-solving abilities

effect of turnover on

sensory integration and

Puberty, brains at

Q

Quantitative reasoning

impact of sleep loss on

R

Rain Man (film)

Ramachandran, Vilayanur

Random genetic mutations

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

consistent exposure to

traditional book learning and needs

Recess, elimination of, from school day

Recognition memory

in explaining familiarity

Reconsolidation

Rehearsal, elaborative

Relationships, gender in cementing

Remembrance of Things Past (Proust)

Repetition, memory and

Research programs, consistent exposure

Retention, attention and

Retinal neurons

crime scenes and

in declarative memory

familiar settings and

filling in missing gaps in

library model and

in long-term memory

separation of memory from

Sherlock Holmes model

spacing out input in

Retrograde amnesia

Review holidays

Right brain, left brain versus

Right hemisphere

S

Schizophrenia, gender and

School performance, stress and

School systems, learning and

Scoville, William

Seligman, Martin

Semantic encoding

Semantic memory

Sense of wonder, exploration and

Sensory branding

Sensory information

Sensory integration

American model in

association cortices and

bottom-up processing

brain’s integrative instincts and

British model of

declarative-memory consolidation and

Mayer, Richard, and

McGurk effect and

multimodal reinforcement and

Proust effect and

Shereshevskii, Solomon, and

synesthesia and

top-down processing and

working memory in

Sequential actions

exercise and release of

in regulating emotion and mood

Services, improving access to

The Seven Sins of Memory (Schacter)

Sex. See also Gender

Sex chromosomes

Sex-inhibiting threats

Shapiro, Alyson

Shaw, George Bernard

Shereshevskii, Solomon

Sherlock Holmes model of retrieval

Short-term memory

conversion of, to longer-term memory

Simultanagnosia

rapid eye movement (REM)

Sleep deprivation

Slow consolidation

Slow-wave sleep

in brand differentiation

in decision making

in evoking memory

developing adaptive

Spaced learning

Spangenberg, Eric

Spatial contiguity principle

Spatial intelligence

Spatial perception, depression and

Stability in memory

Status, gender in negotiating

in declarative memory

absenteeism and

anxiety disorders and

blood pressure and

Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and

cardiovascular performance and

declarative memory and

effect on learning

emotional stability and

executive function and

fight or flight response and

fluid intelligence and

hippocampus and

immune response and

job performance and

learned helplessness and

marriage intervention and

memory formation and

neurotrophins and

physical health and

physical responses to

problem-solving abilities and

quantitative reasoning and

school performance and

sex-inhibiting threads and

successful management of

toxic effects of

unevenness of human response to

Stress hormones

Stroke, risk for

Structural encoding

Supra-additive integration

Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Surgery as smelly experience

adapting to variation

anatomy of brain and

increased head size and

prediction of mental state

random genetic mutations and

symbolic reasoning and

Variability Selection Theory and

Survival of the fittest

Symbolic reasoning

Synaptic consolidation

sensory integration and

System consolidation

timing properties of

T

Tannen, Deborah

pictures in grabbing attention

use of computer animations

Television advertising, emotionally charged events and

Temporal contiguity principle

10-Minute rule, attention and

Tend and befriend tendency in females

Testing, exploration and

inefficiency of

presentation pf

Theory of Mind skills

Timing principle

Tip-of-the-tongue issues

Toddler’s Creed

Top-down processing

interpretative activity as

sensory integration and

Touch, learning and

Traumatic situations, dealing with

Traumatic stress, learning and

Triune theory of brain

Truancy, stress and

Turnover, effect on productivity

U

Unisensory environment, learning in

Universally experienced stimuli

V

Variability Selection Theory

Variation, adapting to

Verbal communication, gender and

Verbal/linguistic intelligence

Charles Bonnet Syndrome and

communication with images

computer animation and

internal mechanics of

perceived reality and

phantom-limb experiences

pictorial superiority effect and

pictures in grabbing attention

PowerPoint presentations and

role of brain in

testing power of images

Visual-capture effect

Visual information in working memory

Visual processing, modularity of visual

Visual receptor neurons

Visual short-term memory

Visual system as bottom-up processor

Visuo-spatial sketchpad in working memory

W

Whitehead, Barbara

Wine tasting, vocabulary of

experience-dependent

experience-independent

individuality of

mapping of brain and

Women. See also Gender

tend and befriend tendency in

Work, stress at

Workday, integrating exercise into

Work-family conflict

Working memories

central executive in

episodic buffer in

impact of sleep loss on

phonological loop in

visual information in

visuo-spatial sketchpad in

gender teams in

Work schedules, chronotypes matching to

Wrangham, Richard

Wright, Frank Lloyd

X

X factor, gender and

Y

Yancey, Antronette