What Do Puzzles do to Your Brain?

Mental rotation working memory, episodic memory, processing, speed task. Switching! You don’t realize that you are doing this, but it’s important to solve jigsaw puzzles. It’s such a focused task, that can relax, Also your mind, something like it’s similar, like meditation like mindfulness training in general. People say they’ve, they feel really relaxed and after jigsaw puzzling, and this relaxation is really important for psychological health, for example.

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You have this piece jigsaw puzzle on and you look at it. So the first thing, which is happening, the information gets into your eyes, goes through to the occipital cortex from there and there are two pathways so there’s one pathway going like in this direction. We call it ventral, that’s a lower part and there’s this pathway, the dorsal pathway and they are processing different information. For example, the ventral path in this direction is processing the image on the jigsaw puzzle in the what information? What is on the puzzle?

Piece and then you put this puzzle piece, maybe here in the left, upper corner of this, and so remember where you put it and where you saw it, and so that’s where information it’s going, the dorsal way and that information’s what and where somehow the brain needs to integrate this information to make use of it again – and this is like a really difficult task for the brain – to integrate again all this information, and so you also need this integration to find the right pieces again. There have many leisure activities which, with which you can like target brain functions and in general, we find that it’s important to do many different leisure activities and not just doing one again and again. So if you think about training the brain, it’s most important to have like these variations in in tasks and then cheek. So passing is just one task next to other tasks.

I think it might be probably better than watching television, because watching television is very inactive but, for example, reading and dancing and doing card games. It’s the accumulation of all these activities and just jigsaw puzzles one piece and the whole puzzle.