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Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:07 PM

Old Age, Old Brain? Maybe Not

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Posted By: Guevara (March 17, 2009 at 10:49 PM)

The improvement in memory was 4%.  Meaning that instead of forgetting 25 things over a period of time you only forget 24. Is that really a noticeable improvement?

Guevara

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Posted By: martingwalker (February 27, 2009 at 4:36 PM)

I second the comment by MadHax. I'm in the brain training business and I couldn't bring myself to shell out the better part of $400 to try out just one of Posit Science's products (there are two).

Michael Merzenick of Posit Science is an incredible scientist, but it's possible to get good brain training for far less.

My company uses the dual n-back training that was originally designed by a joint US / Swiss team and showed increases in fluid intelligence of more than 40% in less than 20 days.

Martin Walker

www.mindsparke.com

PS. I've kept it under $50

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Posted By: MadHax (February 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM)

What about the ridiculous costs of the software packages by Posit Science?

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Posted By: rYates (February 26, 2009 at 11:03 PM)

Dance more.

Learn to dance.

Go out and dance.

MF dance.

Duh.

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