UC study finds near-transfer of cognitive training to be necessary (yet not sufficient) for far-transfer, broader benefits

Who ben­e­fits from brain train­ing, and why? (UCI release): If you are skilled at play­ing puz­zles on your smart­phone or tablet, what does it say about how fast you learn new puz­zles, or more broad­ly, how well can you focus in school or at work? In the lan­guage of psy­chol­o­gists, does “near trans­fer” pre­dict “far…

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Brain training franchisor LearningRx settles FTC complaint about its marketing claims

Learn­ingRx To Pay $200K For Alleged­ly Unproven Claims That Brain Train­ing Can Improve Income, Treat Autism & ADHD (Con­sumerist): “The com­pa­ny behind the Learn­ingRX “brain train­ing” pro­gram has agreed to pay a $200,000 set­tle­ment and to stop mak­ing claims that its sys­tem is clin­i­cal­ly proven to treat seri­ous health con­di­tions, or that it can 

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Under new CEO, Lumosity to expand brain training platform with focus on applied skills and broader social, wellness factors

Lumosity’s Stum­ble Reveals How We Think About Think­ing (Buz­zFeed News): “The ads were per­va­sive, pop­ping up on CNN, Fox News, NPR, and Google search­es. And they were per­sua­sive: Play­ing Lumos­i­ty games would do your brain good…But these claims sound­ed a lit­tle too rosy to the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which 

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San Francisco, April 6th: Explore the latest in Pervasive Neurotechnology @ NeuroTechSF

Heads-up: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, our co-founder and the edi­­tor-in-chief of Sharp­Brains’ lat­est mar­ket report, will present Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: The Inno­va­tion Land­scape at Neu­roTech SF 2016, a new indus­try con­fer­ence explor­ing break­throughs in brain mon­i­tor­ing, BCI, neu­ro­feed­back and stim­u­la­tion. –> To Learn More & Reg­is­ter, click HERE (20%-off dis­count code: SB20)

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