So I’m in the local Best Buy and I see that the Nintendo DS has Brain Age on display, it tests your "brain age" with a series of mental exercises. Heh, I’m up for a workout so I run the game which does things like show you the word blue but written in red and you are supposed to say the color (not the word). The store is noisy, however, so the damn microphone isn’t picking up my answers. It gives me a brain age of 95! What the #$$!%!. So I run the game again and this time I’m shouting into the machine, blue, red, no I said red damn it, green, green, green… Well, I managed to get my brain age down some but by now people were looking at me real funny.
Anyway, if you want to try some of these exercises you can now join an online gym and workout at home. The Washington Post has a brief review of some of the sites including MyBrainTrainer, Happy-Neuron and Brain Builder. Of course, you know my recommendation for the best website to improve your brain power.
The Stroop Color Word Association test is an interesting one, and doesn’t test what that game claims it does …
So…95 is a bad brain age? What is a good one? Is it supposed to correspond to actual age in some way?
Just curious…
If you ask me, the best way to exercise your brain is higher math and inventing things, like designing a new programming language.
I came across Cognitive Labs – which has even more games or your brain and a whole focus on circuit training for the brain-it’s worth a look. They claim to have 1.8 million users which is pretty impressive if that’s correct…I signed up for mybraintrainer and I noticed they have some of the same tests, too, for what it’s worth
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