Resource: Free brain games for children (kid tested, teacher approved)

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 15, 2016

. Exquis­ite Minds (a web­site for gift­ed and cre­ative chil­dren) has curat­ed a fan­tas­tic list of Free Brain Games, promis­ing that “These free brain games have been kid test­ed and teacher approved.” We are proud our brain teasers for teens and adults top the list, and agree with their assess­ment that “This site is more intel­lec­tu­al in nature, it’s…

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Cognitive Fitness @ Harvard Business Review

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 30, 2007 |

The Har­vard Busi­ness Review just pub­lished (thanks Cather­ine!) this arti­cle on cog­ni­tive fit­ness, by Rod­er­ick Gilkey and Clint Kilts. We are hap­py to see the grow­ing inter­est on how to main­tain healthy and pro­duc­tive brains, from a broad­en­ing num­ber of quar­ters. With­out hav­ing yet ful­ly read the article…it seems to pro­vide a rea­son­able intro­duc­tion to…

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Sharpen Your Wits With This Special Offer!

By Caroline Latham | February 26, 2007

We are offer­ing a lim­it­ed-time deal for the rest of Feb­ru­ary 2007. If you buy any of the fol­low­ing brain fit­ness pro­grams: Freeze-Framer, Mind­Fit, Bas­ket­ball Intel­li­Gym, Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing, or Exer­cise your Brain DVD, you will get Brain Fit­ness 101 includ­ed for free!

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Memory training and attention deficits: interview with Notre Dame’s Bradley Gibson

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 9, 2007 |

Pro­fes­sor Bradley Gib­son is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Psy­chol­o­gy at Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame, and Direc­tor of the Per­cep­tion and Atten­tion Lab there. He is a cog­ni­tive psy­chol­o­gist with research inter­ests in per­cep­tion, atten­tion, and visu­al cog­ni­tion. Gib­son’s research has been pub­lished in a vari­ety of jour­nals, includ­ing Jour­nal of Exper­i­men­tal Psychology,…

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