New Summit Sponsor: Dig­i­tal Artefacts

We’re proud to announce that the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit will count on the sup­port from Dig­i­tal Arte­facts, a team of high­ly skilled com­puter sci­en­tists, artists, and engi­neers who are pas­sion­ate about cre­at­ing state of the art visu­al­iza­tion and inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ences for edu­ca­tion and research communities. 

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Monitoring cognition via mobile applications: iPad app analyzed

We recent­ly came across a fas­ci­nat­ing sci­en­tif­ic study, titled Exam­in­ing cog­ni­tive func­tion across the lifes­pan using a mobile appli­ca­tion (Com­put­ers in Human Behav­ior), which stud­ied the val­ue and lim­i­ta­tions of using an iPad app called “brain­base­line.” Abstract: “Many stud­ies con­duct­ed in a lab­o­ra­to­ry or uni­ver­si­ty set­ting are lim­it­ed by fund­ing, per­son­nel, space, and time con­straints. In the present…

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