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The Effects Of Brain Games On The Brain

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From what we have learned in class about studies done on the brain there are a few conclusions that can be made. Dr.Simons was surprised about the outcome of the experiment he did not get strong enough results towards the outcome he wanted/predicted. He stated “ it would be really nice if you could play some games and have it radically change your cognitive abilities”(Simons). One example from class to describe the experiment done by Dr.Simons is their sensation. I believe that something has happened so parts of the subjects sensory neurons in their eyes was not correctly working right and they weren’t able to continuously see the same object, even after using the brain games. Another reason that could have affected their ability to be able …show more content…

They stated that the brain games have not shown a clear benefit so far in the study but they are not sure where the study really went wrong he thinks it is more of the way the participates went about the study. One overall finding was that people do not work the brain hard enough or over a long enough time period, “ it takes mental effort to practice to be able to see results” (Rebok). Rebok says if we can implement that long range, I think that there will be a big dividend eventually. Simons stated they did find a few good studies, which showed that brain games do help people get better at a specific task. He then gave the example of scanning baggage at an airport and looking for a knife. He says “ you get really, really good at spotting that knife” (Simons). Overall they got an even handed amount of results so some would say it would help and others would say it did not, I think for them to be able to say brain games helped they would need it to work for more than half of their participates.
Personally, I have never used a brain training game; maybe I will try one in the future. I used this site called Membean it was to test your knowledge of vocabulary if you know the definition could find examples of it and use it in a sentence but I don’t believe this would be an example of a brain training game. I had one girl who said she believes she used a brain game called “ Fit brains trainer” something like that and it helped her a little bit but not much. I have actually never heard of a brain training game and the people I have asked also have never used one or even heard of what they

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