Not all games are the same, and this study's participants were using certain popular console products. I don't think this research result surprises anyone, and it's not applicable to the brain game genre. It's been mentioned, but the N-back is backed by some research. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back) There are games for it, and they're nothing like the brain games in this study. I'm a brain game developer, and I've made some different games using the same memory principle of the N-back at http://workingmemoryworkout.blogspot.com/ Consumers really have to trust their own judgement, because as far as I know there's no good consumer reports for brain games. For anyone in need of a great brain game resource, see http://www.ludism.org/mentat/BrainTrainingGames.
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Not all games are the same, and this study's participants were using certain popular console products. I don't think this research result surprises anyone, and it's not applicable to the brain game genre. It's been mentioned, but the N-back is backed by some research. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back) There are games for it, and they're nothing like the brain games in this study. I'm a brain game developer, and I've made some different games using the same memory principle of the N-back at http://workingmemoryworkout.blogspot.com/ Consumers really have to trust their own judgement, because as far as I know there's no good consumer reports for brain games. For anyone in need of a great brain game resource, see http://www.ludism.org/mentat/BrainTrainingGames.