Brain Training New Frontier: Ice Hockey!

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2008 |

“USA Hock­ey Inc., is the nation­al gov­ern­ing body for the sport of ice hock­ey in the Unit­ed States. As such, its mis­sion is to pro­mote the growth of hock­ey and pro­vide the best pos­si­ble expe­ri­ence for all par­tic­i­pants by encour­ag­ing, devel­op­ing, advanc­ing and admin­is­ter­ing the sport.” Why do we talk about ice hock­ey in a brain…

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IntelliGym cognitive simulation for Ice Hockey players

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 4, 2008 |

Very inter­est­ing new mar­ket devel­op­ment: The Mark­er, Israel — Oct 28, 2008, Sharp­Brains, In oth­er words, Applied Cog­ni­tive Engi­neer­ing (ACE) and USA Hock­ey have part­nered to bring to mar­ket a cog­ni­tive sim­u­la­tion game to improve the per­for­mance of ice hock­ey play­ers — sim­i­lar to what  ACE has been offer­ing to pro­fes­sion­al and ama­teur bas­ket­ball players.…

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Videogames for Cognitive Training?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 24, 2008 |

There were a few inter­est­ing research papers pre­sent­ed at the last  Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion con­ven­tions around the theme: Play­ing Video Games Offers Learn­ing Across Life Span, Say Stud­ies — Skills Trans­fer to Class­room, Sur­gi­cal Pro­ce­dures, Sci­en­tif­ic Think­ing (press release). Prob­a­bly the most inter­est­ing study was that of 303 laparo­scop­ic sur­geons, which “showed that sur­geons who played…

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Brain Research Interview Series

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 23, 2008 |

We are work­ing on improv­ing sev­er­al sec­tions of our web­site, espe­cial­ly our Resources sec­tion. It will look much bet­ter in a few days. Our first step has been to re-orga­nize our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series, and below you have how it looks today. Dur­ing the last 18 months I have had the for­tune to inter­view over 15…

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Brain Training: No Magic Bullet, Yet Useful Tool. Interview with Elizabeth Zelinski

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 18, 2007 |

Sharon Beg­ley, Newsweek’s sci­ence reporter, recent­ly wrote that — “With the nation’s 78 mil­lion baby boomers approach­ing the age of those dread­ed ‘“where did I leave my keys?” moments, it’s no won­der the mar­ket for com­put­er-based brain train­ing has shot up from essen­tial­ly zero in 2005 to $80 mil­lion this year, accord­ing to the consulting…

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