Posts Tagged ‘Brain-games’
Please help us recruit 30,000 adults for a UC Citizen Science project on cognitive training
How can we cut through the controversies around brain training and unlock the exciting potential as suggested by the numerous published studies showing examples of cognitive training benefits?
Read MoreUpdate: Promote brain plasticity by taking your daily exercise pill — physical and cognitive
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring nine scientific reports and industry developments to help promote lifelong brain health. #1. A must-read, and must-practice: Promote brain plasticity and keep your mind at ease by taking your daily “exercise pill” #2. If cognitive stimulation came in a pill it’d be worth a quadrillion, give or…
Read MoreFun brain teaser to test your cognitive skills during International Brain Teaser Month
Memory relies mostly on the temporal lobes (see green area) and also the frontal lobes (red), so those are the areas that will get some good neuronal activation when readers raised in the US try to remember the missing words in the American proverbs below. Now, if you were raised outside the US and are…
Read MoreGiven cognitive strengths and needs are diverse, what brain training may work best for each person and under which conditions?
Does ‘Brain Training’ Actually Work? (Scientific American): If there were an app on your phone that could improve your memory, would you try it? Who wouldn’t want a better memory? After all, our recollections are fragile and can be impaired by diseases, injuries, mental health conditions and, most acutely for all of us, aging.
Read MoreLarge UC study to investigate when and how brain training transfers (or does not) to broader cognitive and health benefits
Nationwide project seeks to understand how brain exercises produce cognitive benefits (UC press release): How does memory training lead to cognitive benefits? Aaron Seitz, director of the Brain Game Center for mental fitness and well-being at the University of California, Riverside, has wrestled with this question for several years. Now he and Susanne Jaeggi, an associate professor…
Read MoreQuick brain teasers to exercise your working memory
Draw the letter J in your mind. Now draw the letter D. Turn it 90 degrees to the left and put it in top of the J. What does this shape resemble?
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