Cognitive Training for Basketball Game-Intelligence: Interview with Prof. Daniel Gopher

Pro­fes­sor Daniel Gopher is a fel­low of the U.S. Human Fac­tors and Ergonom­ics Soci­ety and the Inter­na­tion­al Ergonom­ics Asso­ci­a­tion, Pro­fes­sor of Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­o­gy and Human Fac­tors Engi­neer­ing at Tech­nion, Israel’s Insti­tute of Sci­ence, and one of world’s lead­ing fig­ures in the field of Cog­ni­tive Train­ing. Dur­ing his 40 year career, he has held a variety…

Read More

Brain Fitness Programs, “Brain Gyms”…Explained

Thanks to Mind­Hacks for the link to a good Wash­ing­ton Post arti­cle, “Pump­ing Neu­rons”. A cou­ple of quotes: Recent research shows that the brain remains plas­tic, or basi­cal­ly train­able, through­out life. In a study pub­lished in the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion in 2002, sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­ages of the 2,802 par­tic­i­pants age 65 and older…

Read More

Brain Fitness, Cultivating Cognition, and Brain Science

Chris Chat­man writes a good intro­duc­tion to what we do, in his entry Cul­ti­vat­ing Cog­ni­tion: the “Brain Fit­ness” Move­ment. I real­ly enjoy his use of the word “cul­ti­vat­ing”, since we want to help inspire a cul­tur­al change that places nur­tur­ing, exer­cis­ing, cul­ti­vat­ing, our brains and minds at the same lev­el as exer­cis­ing and train­ing our…

Read More

The Brain Fitness Revolution is here with us

Roger Doo­ley, author of the Neu­ro­mar­ket­ing blog, wrote in April an excel­lent overview of the Brain Fit­ness field in the Future­Lab blog. Enjoy his entry Mar­ket­ing Neu­ro­science: Brain Fit­ness. Let me quote a cou­ple of sen­tences: “The two big dri­ving forces for the brain fit­ness move­ment are demo­graph­ics, par­tic­u­lar­ly the aging baby boom pop­u­la­tion, and…

Read More