An international team of scientists has demonstrated that just one month of training on a «Virtual Week» computer brain game helps older adults significantly strengthen prospective memory — a type of memory that is crucial for planning, everyday functioning and independent living. (sciencedaily.com)
«This article makes big claims out of a single negative finding,» says Torkel Klingberg, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and founder of a company that makes computer brain - training programs to improve working memory and other cognitive functions. (sciencemag.org)
Producers contacted Adrian Owen at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, U.K., to help design an experiment to test the efficacy of computer brain training. (sciencemag.org)