Comments on: Posit Science, Nintendo Brain Age, and Brain Training Topics

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:43:33 +0000

Completely agree, re brain age. The comparison to a tennis camp is fair, but can be extended.

What these companies claim is not that doing a tennis camp will improve your tennis ability. They claim that doing a tennis camp will improve your general fitness or general coordination. The distinction is very important.

Who wants to improve at some company’s barely-entertaining game? The promise of these games is improvement in broader areas of cognition. I’m very interested to see if they deliver.

By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:40:30 +0000

Is there perhaps a website to read on what your brain age means? I have a brain age of 18 (as does JK above), and I have no idea what that means.

By: JanetWalsh

JanetWalsh — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:17:28 +0000

The brain test froze on the first test with the yeses after about 16 keystrokes.

By: Helene Zemel

Helene Zemel — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:03:11 +0000

Thanks for your contribution to “Take Charge of Your Health Care Carnival.” As with anything, keeping your brain sharp by using it and challenging it helps at any age.

By: Dodgeblogium » Clutz CoTV

Dodgeblogium » Clutz CoTV — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:03:44 +0000

[…] Alvaro Fernandez presents Brain Age, Posit Science, and Brain Training Topics posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “In summary, the great news is that there are more tools available than ever before to assess and train a variety of cognitive skills. The bad news (is this really news?) is that we shouldn’t be expecting magic pills and that “brain age” is a fiction.” […]

By: Shaheen Lakhan

Shaheen Lakhan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:54:00 +0000

Thanks for submitting this post to our blog carnival. We just published the 36th edition of Brain Blogging and your article was featured!

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Shaheen

By: tanya

tanya — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:58:31 +0000

According to most abilities testing people hit their mental peak at age 28–33. So if someone had an age of 18, it should mean that you could actually increase skill which would be the same if you were 43.

By: jk

jk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:27:39 +0000

Yes, as Alvaro guessed, I was referring to the test linked above. I have no experience with the notion of ‘brain age’ apart from that test. At the end of the test, it displays a “brain age”, with no link to an explanation about how to interpret the score or what it means.

I searched around the site of the company that produced the test (cognitivedrugresearch.com) and found no information about the test. I sent them a question (more than 24 hours ago, now) and have not received a reply.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:50:21 +0000

It never seizes to amaze me that people just don’t investigate how to keep their brain healthy. Pick up a copy of 7 Steps to a Healthy Brain by Dr. Paul Winner.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:54:22 +0000

JK seems to be referring to the “brain age” test linked above, which accompanied the article I am commenting on. Not to Nintendo Brain Age.