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Thursday, April 22, 2010
'Brain Training' Games Do Not Improve Mental Skills, Study Says
From The Independent:
Brain training games do not work, according to a study into claims that it is possible to "exercise" the brain with computer tests.
A mass experiment involving nearly 11,500 members of the public failed to find any improvement in mental performance after people regularly used brain-training games on their computers for a period of six weeks.
Scientists said that the results contradicted some of the claims of the brain-training industry, which regularly promotes its computer games as a method of improving a person's mental skills through "exercising".
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