How to Exercise your Brain: Mental Alertness

Improve your vocabulary

Vocabulary lessons have a way of stimulating your brain to be more sound. Studys show that many more regions of the brain are involved in vocabulary tasks, specifically in areas that are important for visual and auditory processing.

To test out this theory, try this interesting cognitive activity.

• Keep a notebook with you when you read.
• Write down one unfamiliar word, then look up the definition.
• Try to use that word five times the next day.

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control carried out research and discovered that learning new dance moves can improve  your brain’s processing speed and memory. So have some fun dancing while giving your brain  a good workout too.

Try multitasking

Multitasking is a great way to give your senses and your brain a workout, try  engaging in activities that simultaneously engage all five of your senses. You making a new meal, visiting a supermarket or visiting a new fun spot while you focus on smelling, touching, tasting, seeing, and hearing all at the same time.

Aside being fun and interesting, learning a new skill can help improve your memory function. You can equally learn and also teach others because you will be able to remember better and become more in tune with your new skill.  One new skill that is really good for the brain is learning a new language because it helps to improve the cognitive function of the brain.