Posts Tagged ‘Torkel-Klingberg’
Salon.com on Brain Fitness: Tree or Forest?
Salon.com published yesterday a thought-provoking article focused on Posit Science’s Brain Fitness Program, titled Buff Up Your Brain, that combined a) some pretty good analysis and great points about that specific program and justifiable (to a point) criticism of the commercial tone of a recent PBS Special, with b) the error of confusing a tree…
Read MoreBrain Games for Kids, Adults…and Chimps
Here are more brain games, cognitive fitness news for everyone.
Read MoreBrain Training: No Magic Bullet, Yet Useful Tool. Interview with Elizabeth Zelinski
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…
Read MorePhysical and Mental Exercise: Why Pitch One Against the other?
Reader Theresa Cerulli just forwarded this Letter to the Editor that she had sent to the New York Times and went unpublished. The letter addresses the OpEd mentioned here (pitching physical vs. mental exercise), and refers to the Cogmed working memory training program, whose results have been studied in multiple papers published in top medical…
Read MoreUse It or Lose It: What is the “It”?
Use it or Lose it is term coined by sharpbrains. If you use your brain, it appreciates. If you don’t use it, it depreciate or lose it. The choice is yours.
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