Posts Tagged ‘Gaming’
The Emerging Brain Fitness Software Market: Building Better Brains
This is an event you may be interested in, if you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The MIT Club of Northern California, American Society on Aging, The Business Forum on Aging and SmartSilvers presents: The Emerging Brain Fitness Market: Building Better Brains (Contact information and Registration Here) Date: 02/12/2008 Tuesday Time: 6:00pm Venue:…
Read MoreCognitive Fitness and Brain Improvement: 10 Debunked Myths
Over the last year we have interviewed a number of leading brain health and fitness scientists and practitioners worldwide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report. What can we say today that we couldn’t have said only 10 years ago? That what neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramon y Cajal claimed in…
Read MoreBrain Health through Serious Games and Brain Exercise
Eliane writes a great post estimating the size of the Serious Games Market, building on the overall PriceWaterhouseCoopers report that seemed to indicate that the Global Video Game Market is Set to Explode. Some quotes “The overall gaming audience continues to expand and become somewhat more female and older than in the past thanks to casual…
Read MoreThe new Mental Game: sport psychology, coaches, get ready!
One of the many Sharp Brains around, who is up to date of everything related to brain health and fitness (yes, Jeanne, that’s you! thanks for being such a great bureau chief!) has sent us a very interesting press note on how brain fitness and training can be applied in the sports performance world. I…
Read MoreTraining the Brains of Fighter Pilots and Basketball Players
We are a brain fitness center because we want to offer the best information, tools and support on how to exercise our brains. Same way you join the gym to stay in shape and find the best machines and personal trainers. One of the “tools” or “machines” we offer was designed under the scientific supervision…
Read MoreMemory training and attention deficits: interview with Notre Dame’s Bradley Gibson
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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