Do the brain games actually help your brain function?
June 15, 2010 – 1:27 pmi was checking out some of the brain games on the ipod. I think they’re pretty fun, but do thry actually help your brain?
The right kind of brain training exercises can improve cognitive function, delay cognitive decline, and improve performance on everyday tasks.
Cognitive training has been shown to have positive benefits that extend beyond improvements on the trained exercises. In children, improvements in visual memory and response inhibition have been demonstrated after visual working memory training (Klingberg, et al., 2005). Increased levels of activation in the prefrontal and parietal cortices were seen in children following similar visual working memory training (Olesen, et al., 2004). Improved mathematical reasoning performance has been observed following this training, as well (Holmes, et al., 2009). In young adults, a challenging working-memory task was demonstrated to improve performance on tests of fluid intelligence (Jaeggi, et al., 2008). Training on speed of processing and reasoning tasks has been shown to generalize to slowed declines in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) five years after training ceases in normal, healthy older adults (Willis, et al., 2006). Auditory-based cognitive training has been shown to improve memory for untrained auditory memory tasks, also in normal, healthy older adults. Participants in this study also self-reported improvements in cognitive function (Smith, et al., 2009). In fact, the evidence for the efficacy of cognitive training is so strong that an NIH-funded study prepared for the US Department of Health and Human Services agency indicated that cognitive training was the only type of intervention for which there is a high degree of evidence supporting a claim of reducing the risk of cognitive decline (Williams, et al., 2010).
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which best brain games I can download from net?
June 2, 2010 – 7:59 amI want to download brain games as they generally increase learning capacity.Pls tell me, I am waiting.
try world of warcraft 3.3.2 on a cool server http://www.wowoptimus.com/news.php
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