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September 30th 2010 21:33
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Your Brain Needs New Things
Brain training does more than just make you a better game player -– it also makes you better at the things you do every day. In order to accomplish this, effective brain training requires a number of critical elements, one of the most important of which is novelty.
When you play a brain game for the first time, you get a good mental workout from having to respond to the game’s central cognitive task. If the task stays the same, however, you will eventually develop cognitive strategies for solving that task. These strategies, in turn, will reduce the demands on your brain and thus the usefulness of the training. To keep the workout maximally effective, your brain needs novel challenges that circumvent any task-specific strategies. In this way, cognitive exercise resembles physical exercise: you have to “confuse” your mental muscles to build them up.
Lumosity.com solves the problem of novelty in two ways. First, individual games change and adapt over time in order to introduce new challenges. For example, in the game Face Memory Workout, the central cognitive task evolves over time. In some cases, you simply need to identify the face you just saw. In other cases, you have to identify the face you saw several turns ago. By changing the task demands, this exercise keeps your brain off balance, challenging your working memory in novel ways.
Second, Lumosity.com introduces novel challenges by exercising each of the major cognitive areas (speed, memory, attention, flexibility and problem solving) with a variety of games. Our training courses ensure your brain will encounter an endless supply of new and evolving tasks.
Lumosity.com has over 30 games to challenge your brain, so log in now to start your mental workout! Subscribe to Lumosity today and receive 25% off.
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