Rosetta Stone to buy Vivity Labs, developer of Fit Brains brain training games

Roset­ta Stone to Acquire Fit Brains Cre­ator Viv­i­ty Labs, Will Enter Fast-Grow­ing Brain-Train­ing Mar­ket (press release): “There is a remark­able over­lap between lan­guage learn­ers and peo­ple who are look­ing to boost their cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties,” said Steve Swad, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Roset­ta Stone. “Indeed, our research sug­gests that a sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­age of peo­ple who purchased…

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Can brain training work? Yes, if it meets these 5 conditions

In a mod­ern soci­ety we are con­front­ed with a wide range of increas­ing­ly abstract and inter­con­nect­ed prob­lems. Suc­cess­ful­ly deal­ing with such an envi­ron­ment requires a high­ly fit brain, capa­ble of adapt­ing to new sit­u­a­tions and chal­lenges through­out life. Con­se­quent­ly, we expect cross-train­ing the brain to soon become as main­stream as cross-train­ing the body is today,…

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Update: Time to become mental capitalists and invest in our brains?

Time for the Novem­ber edi­tion of the month­ly Sharp­Brains eNewslet­ter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of resources and insights on how to invest in our brains, includ­ing top­ics such as brain health, med­i­ta­tion, neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy, brain train­ing games, chemo brain, dyslex­ia, neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, cog­ni­tive bias­es, stress, and more. Not to for­get a cou­ple of fun teasers. Enjoy! Brain Fit­ness Q&A…

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Brain Training Games for Seniors: Looking for the best brain training app

This arti­cle reports on a series of focus group stud­ies car­ried out at the Son­ic Arts Research Cen­tre, Queen’s Uni­ver­si­ty Belfast, North­ern Ire­land. The aim was to iden­ti­fy the key moti­va­tion­al fac­tors influ­enc­ing seniors’ engage­ment with mobile brain train­ing tech­nol­o­gy in order to inform the design of a brain train­ing tool which is acceptable /…

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