64 episodes
Executive Function Brain Trainer Podcast Darius Namdaran and Dr Erica Warren
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4.7 • 28 Ratings
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The Executive Function Brain Trainer Podcast, co-hosted by Dr. Erica Warren and Darius Namdaran, is a biweekly exploration into improving executive functions. The series transforms complex brain science into accessible, practical strategies for enhancing cognitive skills. It investigates areas like boosting memory, improving cognitive flexibility, and offers tailored strategies. The podcast also examines lifestyle factors and technology on cognitive performance. Aimed at a diverse audience, from students to professionals, this podcast offers a practical guide for enhancing mental capabilities.
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#64: How Sleep Powers Executive Functions
In this episode of the Executive Function Brain Trainer, hosts Darius Namdaran and Dr. Erica Warren explore the crucial connection between sleep and executive functions. They review the research on how sleep deprivation and sleep quality affect the brain's prefrontal cortex, influencing working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility. Aimed at educators, parents, and professionals, this episode offers valuable insights and practical tips to enhance mental acuity through better sleep habits. Listeners will gain actionable advice to improve cognitive health and overall well-being.
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Effects of sleep deprivation on executive functioning, cognitive abilities, metacognitive confidence, and decision making: https://tinyurl.com/3ent3ard
Sleep deprivation effects on basic cognitive processes: which components of attention, working memory, and executive functions are more susceptible to the lack of sleep?:https://tinyurl.com/ytrbfvx6
Behavioral Sleep Problems and their Potential Impact on Developing Executive Function in Children : https://tinyurl.com/45nn99kz
Self-Reported Sleep and Executive Function in Early Primary School Children: https://tinyurl.com/3rvtjbfs
Executive functions in preschool children with chronic insomnia: https://tinyurl.com/3zczpedb
Role of sleep continuity and total sleep time in executive function across the adult lifespan. https://tinyurl.com/5n95vukv
Inhibitory Control: https://tinyurl.com/inhibitory-control
Visualization: https://tinyurl.com/blogvisualization
Inner Voice: https://tinyurl.com/inner-voices
Cognitive Flexibility: https://tinyurl.com/cognitive-flexibility
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#63: Exercise and Executive Function
In this episode of the Executive Function Brain Trainer Podcast, Darius Namdaran and Dr. Erica Warren explore the connection between exercise and executive function. They delve into research that reveals how acute (single session) and chronic (regular) aerobic exercise can enhance executive functions across various age groups. Studies indicate that acute exercise significantly improves cognitive functions like inhibition and selective attention, while chronic exercise supports working memory, attention, and flexibility. The hosts also discuss the potential mechanisms behind these effects, such as increased brain oxygenation and neurotransmitter release, and analyze what these findings imply for students and professionals.
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The Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Function: A Meta-Analysis
Acute Exercise and Cardiovascular Fitness Modulate Cognitive Performance With Selective Effects on Executive Function in Preadolescents
Exercise and Children's Intelligence, Cognition, and Academic Achievement
The Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Function: A Meta-Analysis
Executive functioning Games for the classroom : https://tinyurl.com/mt7pbj78
Inhibitory Control: https://tinyurl.com/inhibitory-control
Visualization: https://tinyurl.com/blogvisualization
Inner Voice: https://tinyurl.com/inner-voices
Cognitive Flexibility: https://tinyurl.com/cognitive-flexibility
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#41 Exploring Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Kinesthetic Ways of Processing
In this episode of The Personal Brain Trainer Podcast, Erica and Darius guide us through the dynamic world of visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic processing. As we navigate our everyday lives, our brains, and executive functions decode the world around us via multiple sensory channels. Dive in as we unpack each processing type, providing a comprehensive understanding of how we interpret visual stimuli, sounds, tactile experiences, and movement. This episode will also provide valuable strategies to accommodate and enhance these unique learning pathways, promoting more effective, inclusive, and immersive learning experiences. Whether you're a visualizer or a kinesthetic learner, there's something for everyone in this sensory symphony. Get ready to embark on a journey of cognitive exploration and self-improvement.
Links:
A Workshop on Multisensory Teaching: Accommodating Each Learner's Best Ways of Processing: https://tinyurl.com/yuedmr64
Eclectic Learning Approach and Student Processing Inventory: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
Metacognition: https://tinyurl.com/4dbtc8cw
Working Memory: https://tinyurl.com/working-memory
Multisensory Multiplication: https://tinyurl.com/bdc8btfv
BulletMap Academy: https://bulletmapacademy.com/
Learning Specialist Courses:https://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/
Executive Functions and Study Skills Course: https://tinyurl.com/n86mf2bx
Good Sensory Learning: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
Dyslexia at Work: www.dyslexiawork.com
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#42: Exploring Sequential, Simultaneous, Reflective Logical, and Verbal Ways of Processing
In this episode of The Personal Brain Trainer Podcast, Erica and Darius guide us through the dynamic world of visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic processing. As we navigate our everyday lives, our brains and executive functions decode the world around us via multiple sensory channels. Dive in as we unpack each processing type, providing a comprehensive understanding of how we interpret visual stimuli, sounds, tactile experiences, and movement. This episode will also provide valuable strategies to accommodate and enhance these unique learning pathways, promoting more effective, inclusive, and immersive learning experiences. Whether you're a visualizer or a kinesthetic learner, there's something for everyone in this sensory symphony. Get ready to embark on a journey of cognitive exploration and self-improvement.
Link
A Workshop on Multisensory Teaching: Accommodating Each Learner's Best Ways of Processing: https://tinyurl.com/yuedmr64\
Student Processing Inventory: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
Metacognition: https://tinyurl.com/4dbtc8cw
Working Memory: https://tinyurl.com/working-memory
Multisensory Multiplication: https://tinyurl.com/bdc8btfv
BulletMap Academy: https://bulletmapacademy.com/
Learning Specialist Courses: https://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/
Executive Functions and Study Skills Course: https://tinyurl.com/n86mf2bx
Good Sensory Learning: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
Dyslexia at Work: https://www.dyslexiawork.com/
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43: Exploring Interactive, Indirect Experience, Direct Experience, Rhythmic Melodic Ways of Processing
Tune into this enlightening episode of The Personal Brain Trainer Podcast where hosts Erica and Darius journey into the diverse realms of Interactive, Indirect Experience, Direct Experience, and Rhythmic Melodic processing. Understanding these unique cognitive styles can vastly improve our executive functions, and how we interpret and interact with the world. From collaborative brainstorming of interactive learners, to the in-person approach of direct experience learners, to the rhythm-driven minds of melodic learners, we explore strategies to accommodate each unique style. Whether you're drawn to shared experiences or beat-driven patterns, there's something to learn and apply in this exciting exploration of brain processing.
Links
Eclectic Learning Approach and Student Processing Inventory: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
A Workshop on Multisensory Teaching: Accommodating Each Learner's Best Ways of Processing: https://tinyurl.com/yuedmr64
BulletMap Academy: https://bulletmapacademy.com/
Learning Specialist Courses:https://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/
Executive functions and Study Skills Course: https://tinyurl.com/n86mf2bx
Good Sensory Learning: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
Dyslexia at Work: www.dyslexiawork.com
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#44: AI Capabilities with Memory and Processing
In this episode of The Personal Brain Trainer Podcast, join hosts Erica and Darius as they dive deep into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI), its likeness to the human brain, and how it interacts with our memory systems. They unpack the functions of language models like GPT, which Erica describes as a procedural memory powerhouse, and Darius compares it to an "inference machine" that predicts and processes language in a similar way to our brains. Will AI impact our personal and professional lives? How does it affect data privacy, copyright laws, and overall human intelligence? And most importantly, how can AI tools like Chat GPT support those of us with unique cognitive profiles, such as dyslexia? Tune in to explore these questions and more, and let's journey together into the future of cognitive science and technology.
Links
ChatGPT- https://chat.openai.com/chat
Memory Strategies: https://tinyurl.com/4nmatd9v
Working Memory Screener: https://tinyurl.com/2tvuzet4
Working Memory Exercises: https://tinyurl.com/jyr68xfy
Eclectic Learning Approach and Student Processing Inventory: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
A Workshop on Multisensory Teaching: Accommodating Each Learner's Best Ways of Processing: https://tinyurl.com/yuedmr64
BulletMap Academy: https://bulletmapacademy.com/
Learning Specialist Courses:https://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/
Executive functions and Study Skills Course: https://tinyurl.com/n86mf2bx
Good Sensory Learning: https://goodsensorylearning.com/
Dyslexia at Work: www.dyslexiawork.com
Brought to you by
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https://learningspecialistcourses.com
https://bulletmapacademy.com
https://www.dyslexiawork.com
Customer Reviews
Artificial Intelligence and its benefits
This podcast on Claude, AI was deeply enlightening for me as an occupational therapist. I have been avoiding AI for a long time feeling overwhelmed by the idea in general. Yet, the lively discussion between Erica and Darius gave me a much broader understanding on how beneficial AI can be for children and adults with special needs. I loved when Darius described his experience with the feedback the Claude AI gave him after listening to the conversation he was having with a special needs student. It was uncanny how accurate the feedback was from Claude, regrading the very subtle human behavior that was exchanged between him and his student. This kind of feedback is a must for those who have difficulty reading physical cues. This conversation about the functionality of Claude opened my eyes to a aother level of support available for social training skills. This is brilliant.
Great info; Too much restating
The dr. has great information and advice. Darius, the other host, keeps restating what she says in analogies and metaphors so he can understand it. Darius says he can only understand through them.
Darius: You’re making understanding the info and how it applies to us MUCH harder. Instead of this PLEASE relistening and make your own notes about analogies. The Dr. even points out where your points don’t fit into the point at hand.
Stop trying to restate the information.
If you can’t stop then I’ll have to, and certainly won’t recommend this to anyone else.
Provides helpful strategies for learning difficulties
I’m so grateful I found this podcast bc I actually gain new ideas to help my dtr with different methods to help her learn.
Additionally, the analogies used to help understand concepts are super helpful. And personal discussions on how they learn.