The ultimate in transfer from brain training to real-world outcomes: Reducing the risk of at-fault accidents by almost 50%

___ Can you train your brain to dri­ve longer into your gold­en years? (CTV News): “For the elder­ly, the loss of a driver’s licence could mean the end of inde­pen­dence and the begin­ning of a decline in health, with far-reach­ing con­se­quences in their dai­ly lives…New assis­tive dri­ving tech­nolo­gies seem like an obvi­ous solu­tion in the years…

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Neuroplasticity and “real” Brain Games: The opportunity at hand

In prepa­ra­tion for the new sea­son of Nation­al Geo­graph­ic’s Brain Games, their pro­duc­ers asked me to par­tic­i­pate in a vir­tu­al round­table around this thought-pro­­vok­ing ques­tion: Do you think indi­vid­u­als can train their brain to respond in a par­tic­u­lar way to cer­tain sit­u­a­tions, or do you think our brain’s innate “star­tle response” is too hard­wired to alter? My…

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Virtual “Brain Games” roundtable: Why we can, and SHOULD, train our brains

In prepa­ra­tion for the new sea­son of Nation­al Geo­graph­ic’s Brain Games, start­ing this Sun­day Feb­ru­ary 14th, their pro­duc­ers asked us to par­tic­i­pate in a vir­tu­al round­table around this thought-pro­­vok­ing ques­tion: Do you think indi­vid­u­als can train their brain to respond in a par­tic­u­lar way to cer­tain sit­u­a­tions, or do you think our brain’s innate “star­tle response”…

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Lumos Labs (maker of Lumosity) pays $2 million to settle FTC deceptive advertising charges

. Lumos­i­ty must pay $2 mil­lion after “unfound­ed” brain game claims (Fast Com­pa­ny): “The mak­er of brain game app Lumos­i­ty has agreed to pay $2 mil­lion to set­tle charges brought by the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which alleged it deceived con­sumers about the product’s brain-train­ing ben­e­fits. The FTC said Tues­day that Lumos­i­ty made “unfound­ed claims” that…

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Study: Brain training game can improve prospective memory and activities of daily living

Vir­tu­al Week’ brain game has poten­tial to help old­er adults remain inde­pen­dent longer (press release): “An inter­na­tion­al team of sci­en­tists has demon­strat­ed that just one month of train­ing on a “Vir­tu­al Week” com­put­er brain game helps old­er adults sig­nif­i­cant­ly strength­en prospec­tive mem­o­ry — a type of mem­o­ry that is cru­cial for plan­ning, every­day func­tion­ing and…

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