A quote from the article:
"No sensible engineer would have designed things this way. Why design fancy machinery for making long-term goals if you're not going to use it? Yet the brain is structured such that the more tired, stressed or distracted we are, the less likely we are to use our forebrains and the more likely to lean back on the time-tested but shortsighted machinery we've inherited from our ancestors."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-...0,5015266.story

Do any of you play the cognitive function enhancement games available for the net, cell phones, handheld game consoles, etc.,? Any recommendations?

John Grigg