MindFit, IntelliGym, RoboMemo, Freeze-Framer

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 13, 2006

Mind­Fit, Intel­li­Gym, RoboMemo, Freeze-Framer? Is this a puz­zle? As you may have noticed, we just start­ed to offer through the web­site some of the Brain Fit­ness pro­grams we have been talk­ing about. For over a year we have been search­ing for best pro­grams world­wide, and here you have some of the pro­grams we have found.…

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Simulations: cognitive or physical? ‑Serious Games Summit

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 1, 2006 |

Very fun day at the Seri­ous Games Sum­mit yes­ter­day. I was part of a pan­el on Games that Change Behav­iors or Teach Skills. We had 90–100 peo­ple in the room, who were will­ing to par­tic­i­pate and do the Stroop test aloud to have some fun (many of them being in the mil­i­tary, they were pretty…

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Cognitive Neuroscience and ADD/ADHD Today

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 30, 2006 |

Some days ago we men­tioned atten­tion deficits and exec­u­tive func­tions, as part of a review of Cog­ni­tive Neu­ro­science and Edu­ca­tion. Let me explore that in more depth now, hav­ing just met a num­ber of very inter­est­ing researchers, doc­tors and experts at CHADD con­fer­ence, and wit­nessed the first baby steps of a com­ing rev­o­lu­tion. First, 3…

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Executive functioning and ADD/ ADHD: is Brain Fitness coming here too?

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 26, 2006

Great day at CHADD today. Very good con­ver­sa­tions on Brain Fit­ness with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and the Cogmed team, pedi­a­tri­cians such as Dr. Arthur Lavin, who was the first clin­i­cal provider of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in the US, and neu­rop­shy­chol­o­gist Dr. Sam Gold­stein-this con­ver­sa­tion around how biofeed­back devices can help golfers bet­ter man­age their…

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Cogmed’s Working Memory Training in CHADD (ADD/ ADHD)

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 24, 2006 |

Am get­ting ready for CHADD con­fer­ence in Chica­go lat­er this week. Will get to meet the Cogmed team, includ­ing Dr. Torkel Kling­berg, com­ing from Swe­den for the ocas­sion. A num­ber of peo­ple have asked me for some pre­lim­i­nary infor­ma­tion from the repli­ca­tion stud­ies done based on Cogmed’s Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing Pro­gram. Here you have a…

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Cognitive Neuroscience and Education Today

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 19, 2006 |

Both The Quick and the Ed and Intel­li­gence Test­ing  blogs men­tion the Amer­i­can Edu­ca­tor arti­cle “Brain-based” Learn­ing: More Fic­tion than Fact, by cog­ni­tive psy­chol­o­gist Daniel T. Will­ing­ham. The arti­cle does a very good job at debunk­ing some myths, and show­ing a skep­tic face to the edu­ca­tion­al val­ue of ultra-sophis­ti­­cat­ed fMRI scans. I ful­ly agree with…

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