Even as you may try your best to find the cat among the owls, did you know how puzzles like these stimulate your brain and make you smarter? The biggest attraction about puzzles is challenging yourself and being your own competition to see how fast you can accomplish the task. It’s the feeling of satisfaction perhaps in completing a puzzle within record time that gives you a high of sorts and scientifically speaking there is a big element of truth in that as you will find when you read on.
Puzzles increase your observational skills, your power of focus and concentration but most of all they increase brain power. So without further ado, find the cat among the owls.
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When you work on a puzzle, the process strengthens the neural connections between the brain cells and increases new relationships between them to identify and define higher levels of functioning. This also increases mental and cognitive function. So did you find it? Well if you haven’t, then here’s the answer.
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Puzzles or brain teasers as they are better known can increase your ingenuity due to the procedure in which you exercise your brain to explore options and various means to find an answer. The ensuing method of trial and error needs you to create theories and then test them to see if they work. All this exercise and experimentation is stimulating and improving your brain that gives rise to increased efficiency, innovation and makes you adept at problem-solving. The next puzzle is to find Pete the panda among this crowd of cats, dogs and other animals.
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Now comes the biggest benefit of doing these brain teasers. When you complete one within or before the stipulated time, then it gives you an utmost sense of satisfaction much like a good high. This is when Dopamine is released n your brain. Dopamine is neurotransmitter or chemical responsible for pleasure and pain. Low levels of dopamine increases cognitive disease like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. Studies have also proved how brain exercises are good for improving cognitive function.
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Dopamine increases what they call motoring skills and boosts your optimism, positivity, confidence and concentration. Did you find Pete the Panda? Even if you didn’t, then you have still undergone the process of stimulating your brain so keep challenging your brain because it is the process what counts. And here’s Pete hidden in the picture.
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This is another popular teaser doing the rounds of the internet. Research has shown that Brian teasers add to the fitness regimen of our brains which we take for granted. A dexterous brain means a happier and healthier human being.
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Sudoku fans, this may disappoint you but one mundane activity will not stimulate your brain because you need a variety of exercises and mental stimulation. As for the dog among the cows, there’s the dog hiding in the circle. This was tough because the dog’s face has been drawn to resemble the cow. It’s just the inverted “T” of the mouth and nose which is the giveaway.
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The man behind one of the most viral puzzles on the internet, the octopus puzzle is Gergely Dudas also the creator of the panda puzzle. You have to find the fish among the group of octopuses.
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Research found that being exposed to such activity like brain games, teasers and logic puzzles improves our brains big time helping. It gives us a clearer mental faculty to think, analyses and perform any given task in the best way possible. The trick is in order to get the maximum benefits of the brain-boosting power of these puzzles is never to give up. Puzzles boost:
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Did you find the fish? It’s there on the left.
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Gergely was so successful with his puzzles that the Hungarian created another one called the Easter egg bunny. The cartoonist goes by the ID “Dudolf” and is now an internet sensation with his brain teasers. Each of these rabbits are performing a different task distracting the viewer from finding the elusive egg.
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The egg which is peach colored can be found near the left-hand edge of the drawing. This was quite a toughie too, don’t you think?
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So that’s it for puzzles and Brian teasers. But did you know that you can also exercise and workout your brain by performing everyday tasks in a different way like brushing your teeth with your left hand instead of the right? This is intriguing so read these exercises to boost your brain power. They are fascinating because of the simplicity of the task required of you.
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