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Brain Training Online : Brain Training

Article by Jeffery Gwin

Adrian Owen of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and his colleagues first measured participants’ baseline performance on a battery of freely available ‘benchmark’ tests. Included were measures of reasoning, verbal short-term memory, spatial working memory and paired-associates learning (a test of longer-term verbal memory).

The participants, who had an average age of 39, then formed three groups. The first group spent six weeks, for a minimum of ten minutes a day, three times a… Continue reading