Monitoring cognition via mobile applications: iPad app analyzed

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 12, 2012

We recent­ly came across a fas­ci­nat­ing sci­en­tif­ic study, titled Exam­in­ing cog­ni­tive func­tion across the lifes­pan using a mobile appli­ca­tion (Com­put­ers in Human Behav­ior), which stud­ied the val­ue and lim­i­ta­tions of using an iPad app called “brain­base­line.” Abstract: “Many stud­ies con­duct­ed in a lab­o­ra­to­ry or uni­ver­si­ty set­ting are lim­it­ed by fund­ing, per­son­nel, space, and time con­straints. In the present…

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UCSF study looks for Bay Area participants

By UCSF Gazzaley Lab | July 12, 2010

We often hear inter­est from peo­ple of all ages in being par­tic­i­pants in the cog­ni­tive research we are doing in our UCSF lab. How­ev­er, all of our exper­i­ments to date have been focused on under 20 year olds and the over 60 age group, and many peo­ple fall in between. Well, we have just launched…

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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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