Neuroscience
The Game Brain
The Wall Street Journal today has an article on the front page of its Marketplace section about Nintendo's entry to The Game Brain trend:
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day.
Nintendo's Brain-Training Game Targets Older PlayersGinny Parker Woods
The Wall Street Journal23 February 2006.
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Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain
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Neurofitness Games
Via OmniBrain: PositScience offers a video game touted to improve cognitive skills, called the Brain Fitness Program. It tests auditory recognition speed then improves your score through memorization practice. It claims to reverse aging. I have a moisturizer...
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Upcoming Event: San Francisco, 18 March 2006: The Universe, Weighing In At Three Pounds
Looking forward to reading a new book, The Three-Pound Enigma : The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries by Shannon Moffett. You can attend a presentation by the author on the 18th of March 2006 (7 p.m.) at Cover to Cover Booksellers , located...
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The Game Brain
From The Washington Post:Preventive Maintenance For the Brain Can Exercise or Mind Games Help? A Look at the Evidence By Alicia Ault Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, February 21, 2006; Page HE01 If it seems you're forgetting more as you grow...
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Neuropsychology Executive-function Card Game?
Boing Boing posts today about a "geeky card game" that seems to call for a good dose of healthy frontal lobe functioning. The game is called "Set." Read the posting here. (Another Boing Boing post today is about an online atlas of the monkey brain.) -...
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The Game Brain (continued)
Illustrator Paige Pooler has a cute illustration on her blog Eyes Wide Apart today on the topic of aging which seems appropo to the spirit of The Game Brain. (grin) - Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience | neuropsychology | brain...
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