Forget thinking vs. feeling dichotomy. Think/ feel holistic brain functioning

Mental Math and the Fine-Tuning of Emotions (The Dana Foundation) “You often hear the word “calculating” used to describe someone who always seems to act deliberately, guided by reason rather than emotion. The idea behind this characterization is that human nature straddles a deep divide between thinking and feeling, but current research suggests otherwise. Brain-imaging studies, in particular, reveal an overlap between the sites in the brain that make it possible for us to perform mental arithmetic and those that enable us to regulate our emotions. In fact, these two dissimilar-seeming functions are housed in the same neighborhood of the cerebral cortex. But they don’t just reside near each other—they actually work together. “It’s possible that training the brain with mental math strengthens the capacity for emotional reappraisal, or perhaps continually running the process of emotional reappraisal increases the ability for mental calculations of other kinds like mental arithmetic.” To learn more: Top Brain Teasers, Games and Illusions–for Teens and Adults of Any Age Try Thinking and Learning Without Working Memory Debunking the left-brain/ right-brain myth
Source: SharpBrains - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning brain-functioning Brain-Imaging Cerebral Cortex emotion emotional reappraisal feeling mental arithmetic mental math reason thinking Source Type: blogs