Comments on: Cognitive Training for Basketball Game-Intelligence: Interview with Prof. Daniel Gopher

By: jhon

jhon — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:46:24 +0000

Your excellent interview with Dr. Gopher reminded me why so many of us have followed his lead in training complex skills. I hope that your interview inspires others. They will find that he is generous with his ideas, time, energy, and infectious positive spirit. Working with him to replicate experiments and extend ideas is both productive and enjoyable.
Your interview includes a reference to an article by my colleagues and me. I want to update the reference and provide a related reference to a Web-based Archive.

By: Encefalus

Encefalus — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:04:13 +0000

A very nice article! I believe that cognitive training could be easily used in the educational system (and certainly video games are more interesting than books )

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