Brain Training Resesarch

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From Nature via the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Last month Nature published a study that said training your brain was pretty much useless. While practicing a particular task might make you better at that task, the improvement was nontransferrable. Doing crosswords doesn’t make you smarter, it just makes you better at doing crosswords. Those sad findings were reported all over the place.

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Native Angeleno, professor of Neuroscience and Public Policy at George Mason University

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  1. Hello, Jim.

    It's odd that this study passed internal scrutiny at the BBC and Nature. If the goal was to determine whether brain training could work, the premise of Brain Test Britain was flawed and ignored prior studies that have shown general benefits from brain training.

    The participants in the BBC study only trained for 10 minutes three times per week. And the training exercises weren't particularly intensive. In 2008 a well-received study by US and Swiss researchers (Jaeggi / Buschkuehl PNAS April 2008) showed that intensive training on a demanding working memory task for 30 minutes per day five days per week improved intelligence. Why did Dr. Owen ignore the work of his peers when he designed his study?

    I'd invite anyone to try a proven brain training program and witness for themselves the cognitive benefits.

    Martin Walker
    http://mindsparke.com

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