Sentences with phrase «games brain game»

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It's an important move, one that will have a ripple effect across the lucrative «brain game» industry that — despite concerns from prominent psychologists, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists — has been operating without much regulatory oversight for years.

«Your brain is wired not only to figure out where you sit in the professional and social pecking order against others, but to reinforce your position in that pecking order,» says writer Steve Errey, who continues: «When you get wrapped up in establishing or maintaining status, the moment your place in the hierarchy drops you're going to feel pretty horrible... Don't get into the status game — there are no winners.»

Lumosity, the online brain training company, has quite the seductive pitch: If you want to sharpen your mental focus and stave off dementia and Alzheimer's, just start playing a series of its mobile and online games.

Board games and puzzles aren't just fun but also a great way to work out your brain.

Video games tell stories that allow the player to interact, which is more involved and engages different parts of the brain in ways that reading or watching tv doesn't always do.

«Play games (Scrabble, bridge, chess, Go, Battleship, Connect 4, doesn't matter),» suggests Xie (for a ninja - level brain boost, exercise your working memory by trying to play without looking at the board).

In the meantime, we can do our part to keep our attentional focus sharp by first reducing distractions to improve our suppression capabilities, and then beefing - up the brain's enhancement functions through activities like exercise, meditation, outdoor time, and immersive video games.

A «brain training» iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday.

The difference between the games that work and the ones that don't gives us information into how the brain changes in response to its environment.

The use to describe its online products as «a personal trainer for your brain» able to improve «performance with the science of neuroplasticity, but in a way that just feels like games.»

In the meantime, certain currently available video game titles may actually be good for brain health and improve cognition.

But I would hope this help inform individuals» expectations about brain games» impact everyday cognitive functions.

However, many in the industry are hopeful doctors will one day prescribe game - like cognitive exercises as part of a healthy brain training regimen.

Last year started on a $ 2 million sour note for brain - training game company Lumosity.

Related: «Brain Game» - Maker Lumosity Forges Ahead After Reaching a $ 2 Million Settlement for Deceiving Consumers

Playing games impacts the brain positively by increasing motivation, improving memory, driving efficiency, and at even enhancing feelings of empathy among your team.

TechnologyAdvice.com compiled research on how games impact the brain, and it looks like the easiest way to increase productivity is not providing more vacation, bigger paychecks, or improved benefits.

Though not all «brain training» games and puzzles will improve your IQ, they will keep your mind healthy, and could even mitigate the onset of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

You could also think of your brain like a baseball game, according to Yuval Nir, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

«They were brought up on games, and that changes the way their brains work.

Last year The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center began clinical trials on the efficacy of SuperBetter to treat traumatic brain injuries, and the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center greenlighted a randomized controlled user study of the game to treat depression.

VICIS is a startup that's developed the Zero1, a helmet that can reduce the game's impact on the brain.

«We know games have the power to change the state of the brain, stimulating parts of the brain that therapy doesn't.»

A group of University of Illinois psychologists reviewed all the scientific papers that brain training companies use to market the proven success of their brain training apps and games.

If participants know what the expected hypothesis is — that playing brain science games improves your memory or that standing in a power pose improves your confidence — they're more likely to skew the results in the favor of that hypothesis.

This «brain game» maker isn't giving up after $ 2 million settlement.

Lumosity features a series of «brain games» that the company believes can help slow or ward off cognitive decline — but those claims haven't been definitely proven, which is what got the firm into hot water over its marketing in the first place.

Not only do games like Scattergories provide fun, they stretch brains and encourage cross departmental interactions.

Since then, additional high - profile studies have come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which found no evidence that brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.

And there is some controversy about whether or not brain games can actually translate into real world outcomes for patients.

«Brain Game» - Maker Lumosity Forges Ahead After Reaching a $ 2 Million Settlement for Deceiving Consumers

More broadly, a number of researchers have disputed the idea that playing brain games translates into any real - world value.

I thought that if I had another brain helping me, we could have fun, be creative, play the business game, and make it into something.

This marathon contest is part of the university brain trust's attempt to show that AI, which has already prevailed against humans in tic - tac - toe, checkers, chess, and Go — can do the same in this particular game.

But they tend not to boost brain performance outside of the game.

Brain waves usually are monitored in hospitals or research labs, but I'm in a conference room at a company called Emotiv, where a few dozen scientists have developed the gear and software that quite literally read my mind, allowing me to play a sort of video game with nothing but sheer thought.

Gamers weren't going to wear a gooey bathing cap, so the team came up with a rigid, relatively unobtrusive, even cool - looking headset able to get an accurate brain - wave reading with 16 gel - free sensors instead of the 128 sticky ones in a standard EEG cap.

This new research suggests that games with a little more problem solving and a few more spatially complex tasks may help train the brain's hippocampus for things like remembering lost keys and recalling new names.

While some of the more measured commenters explained that watching video games was akin to watching sports, others wished AIDS, brain cancer and other violent death scenarios (of questionable grammatical formulation) upon the host.

Shawn Achor frames this rewiring as «The Positive Tetris Effect» in The Happiness Advantage, drawing from the way Tetris impresses our brain so that we end up parsing the world in terms of the game.

In 2015, she was invited to consult on Showtime's drama BILLIONS and in 2016, Bloomberg's Tradebook delivered their trader brain exercise game based on her work.

I've been playing on Anti-AgingGames.com which is Nolan Bushnell's new brain game site and I can tell you that my memory for both numbers and lists of words has improved dramatically in just two months even though I haven't played that much.

In the last year, the technology long used by researchers to measure brain activity has become affordable enough for some toy makers to incorporate it into their toys and video games.

Toronto, December 10, 2009 — Brain - controlled games are among 2009's hottest holiday toys, but the minds behind Canadian upstart and MaRS client InteraXon have been pushing the frontier of brainwave technology through their engaging products and events for years.

Brain - controlled games are among 2009's hottest holiday toys, but the minds behind Canadian upstart and MaRS client InteraXon have been pushing the frontier of brainwave technology through their engaging products and events for years.

This year's most popular brain - controlled games include:

Based on decades of cognitive science research at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute, the quick and accessible Cogniciti brain health assessment (www.cogniciti.com) is designed as a series of game - like tests that tap into cognitive abilities (such as memory and attention).

I know that what maybe important to me might not be important to another but someone recently did a study to find out that the part in the brain that «lights up» when some people who play video - games excessively, is the same that «lights up» when folks get high on drugs....

«From the powerty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks And the hoof beats pound in his brain And he's taught how to walk in a pack Shoot in the back With his fist in a clinch To hang and to lynch To hide «neath the hood To kill with no pain Like a dog on a chain He ain't got no name But it ain't him to blame He's only a pawn in their game»

Aren't such games considered as brain washing kids, teaching them violence.