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Brain Training Games Don't Train Your Brain

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-it-just-takes-more-than-6-weeks dept.

Stoobalou writes with this excerpt from Thinq.co.uk: "A new study has shown that brain training games do little to exercise the grey matter. Millions of people who have been prodding away at their Nintendo DS portable consoles, smug in the knowledge that they are giving their brains a proper work-out, might have to rethink how they are going to stop the contents of their skulls turning into mush."

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  1. Re:Hmmm. I question this study. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Doing simple arithmetic will keep your brain fit as much as lifting your spoon at breakfast will keep you physically fit.