{"id":168433,"date":"2023-07-27T10:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/simple-brain-hack-could-boost-learning-and-improve-mental-health"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:22:26","slug":"simple-brain-hack-could-boost-learning-and-improve-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/simple-brain-hack-could-boost-learning-and-improve-mental-health","title":{"rendered":"Simple Brain Hack Could Boost Learning and Improve Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simple-brain-hack-could-boost-learning-and-improve-mental-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adopting a curious mindset over a high-pressure one can enhance memory, according to recent research from <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/duke-university\/amp\/>Duke University<\/a>. The study showed that participants who envisioned themselves as a thief planning a heist in a virtual art museum demonstrated better recall of the paintings they encountered than those who imagined executing the heist on the spot while playing the same computer game.<\/p>\n<p>The slight variation in motivations \u2014 the urgent need to achieve immediate goals versus the curious exploration for future objectives \u2014 could have significant implications in real-life scenarios. These include incentivizing people to receive a vaccine, prompting action against climate change, and potentially providing new treatments for psychiatric conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were recently published in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adopting a curious mindset over a high-pressure one can enhance memory, according to recent research from Duke University. The study showed that participants who envisioned themselves as a thief planning a heist in a virtual art museum demonstrated better recall of the paintings they encountered than those who imagined executing the heist on the spot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,32,42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-education","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}