Latest Cognitive neuroscience Stories

Brain games developer Acuity Games brings revolutionary lifetime brain fitness measurement to the iPhone. Pompton Plains, NJ (PRWEB) May 25, 2013 Acuity Games’ innovative brain games have come to Apple’s iPhone. The universal app version of Word Hunt is available today, expanding it beyond its iPad roots. Universal app versions of Concentration, Edge Match, Flash 2, Sudoku and Matchematics will roll out over the next 30 days. The brain games’ gameplay and revolutionary lifetime...

Groundbreaking SharpBrains Analysis Identifies Four Proven Brain Training Methodologies and Reviews Leading Computerized Programs WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To help clarify the confusing media controversies on whether "brain training" actually works, a new book by independent market research company SharpBrains outlines five key conditions required for brain training to work, based on the analysis of hundreds on scientific studies. "Brain training is rapidly becoming...

LAKE MARY, Fla., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- GIST Publishing announces the release of Mind Code: How Language Influences the Way We Think by Dr. Charles E. Bailey. Dr. Bailey received his medical degree from the University of Texas at Houston and completed psychiatric residency training at the University of Florida. He practiced as a General Psychiatrist in the Orlando, Florida area for over twenty years. For the past ten years, he has conducted clinical research in...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The frontal lobes are not disproportionately larger compared to other regions of the brain, suggesting other areas of the brain may play a role in humans’ unique cognitive abilities, according to new research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Researchers from Durham University and Reading University compared the size of the frontal lobes – regions of a mammal’s brain that are...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FEEL Golf Co., Inc. (OTCBB: FEEL) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Intelligent Living Inc., has acquired Mind360, a company which offers a series of scientifically developed online brain games targeted to improve cognitive skills and memory function. The games on Mind360( ) are aimed toward sharpening memory, increasing focus, building logical reasoning skills, increasing alertness and awareness, boosting productivity, and...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FEEL Golf Co., Inc. (OTCBB: FEEL) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Intelligent Living Inc., has acquired Mind360, a company which offers a series of scientifically developed online brain games targeted to improve cognitive skills and memory function. The games on Mind360 are aimed toward sharpening memory, increasing focus, building logical reasoning skills, increasing alertness and awareness, boosting productivity, and...

NewYorker.com claims brain games are bogus. Here's why they're wrong. Pompton Plains, NJ (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 The New Yorker’s website published an article proclaiming, “Brain Games are Bogus” on April 5. Acuity Games, agrees with the research, but rejects the conclusion. The article questions the benefits of brain games that are based upon working-memory training. Citing research from Georgia Tech and the University of Oslo, the article concludes that this approach is...

University of Iowa There may be a way for older people to prevent natural aging of their minds, and it could be as simple as playing a video game. That's according to a study from the University of Iowa, which found that elderly people who played just ten hours of a game priming their mental processing speed and skills delayed declines by as many as seven years in a range of cognitive skills. "We know that we can stop this decline and actually restore cognitive processing speed to...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A study published today pitted a commercially available brain fitness exercise against crossword puzzles. Researchers at the University of Iowa, reporting in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE found that the group using the computerized exercise for just 10 hours had significant gains in cognitive function, while the group doing crosswords on the computer for an equal amount of time had no significant improvements. "It's the 'use it or...

Prisoners who are psychopaths lack the basic neurophysiological "hardwiring" that enables them to care for others, according to a new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and the University of New Mexico. "A marked lack of empathy is a hallmark characteristic of individuals with psychopathy," said the lead author of the study, Jean Decety, the Irving B. Harris Professor in Psychology and Psychiatry at UChicago. Psychopathy affects approximately 1 percent of the United...