Your move.........
Posted on 04/20/2010 1:22:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON – People playing computer games to train their brains might as well be playing Super Mario, new research suggests.
In a six-week study, experts found people who played online games designed to improve their cognitive skills didn't get any smarter.
Researchers recruited participants from viewers of the BBC's science show "Bang Goes the Theory." More than 8,600 people aged 18 to 60 were asked to play online brain games designed by the researchers to improve their memory, reasoning and other skills for at least 10 minutes a day, three times a week.
They were compared to more than 2,700 people who didn't play any brain games, .. All participants were given a sort of I.Q. test before and after the experiment.
Researchers said the people who did the brain training didn't do any better on the test after six weeks .. On some sections of the test, the people who surfed the Net scored higher than those playing the games.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
“online brain games designed by the researchers to improve their memory”
Again we find where the Global Warming scientists have move too.
>> On some sections of the test, the people who surfed the Net scored higher than those playing the games.
If ~Freeping~ makes your mind stronger, I must be uber-Mensa by now. :-)
Your move.........
sshhhhhhh! don’t tell the boss;-)
Have you checked out sporcle.com?
Are “memory” and “smarter” the same thing?
Smarter or quicker? There’s a difference. For smarter, you have to learn something new. Most brain games help you get faster at doing something you already know.
Dang!
It’s because all the subjects were liberals.
Using your brain slows down the aging process, it doesn’t necessarily make you smarter, unless you’re using it to learn new things.
Dang! What excuse am I going to use now?
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