Brain games

Sites

• Lumosity – http://www.lumosity.com/
• Mind games at BrainScale.net – http://brainscale.net/

Dual N-back

• paper: “Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory” by Susanne M. Jaeggi, Martin Buschkuehl, John Jonides, and Walter J. Perrig – http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/04/25/0801268105.abstract
• paper: “Short- and long-term benefits of cognitive training” by Susanne M. Jaeggi1, Martin Buschkuehl, John Jonides, and Priti Shah – http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/06/03/1103228108.abstract
• paper: “Increasing fluid intelligence is possible after all” by Robert J. Sternberg – http://www.pnas.org/content/105/19/6791.full.pdf#page=1&view=FitH [PDF]
• “Can You Make Yourself Smarter?” By DAN HURLEY (The New York Times; 2012.04.18) – http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

“Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter” by Alexis Madrigal (Wired; 2008.04.28) – http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/smart_software

• Dual N-back game online (at Soak Your Head) – http://www.soakyourhead.com/dual-n-back.aspx [requires Silverlight 2]
• Dual N-back game online – http://www.brainboffin.com/
• Discussion at Google groups: “Dual N-Back, Brain Training & Intelligence” – https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/brain-training
• Dual N-Back FAQ – http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ
• IQ boost with dual n-back task – http://dual-n-back.com/ [with online game at http://dual-n-back.com/nback.html]
• N-back (at WikiPedia) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back
• Brain Workshop – a Dual N-Back game – http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/; free downloadable application (for Windows)
• Brain Workshop – Python implementation of the Dual N-Back mental exercise – http://sourceforge.net/projects/brainworkshop/
• Dual N-Back Lite – http://sourceforge.net/projects/dualnbacklite/
• The Brain Trainers” by DAN HURLEY (NYT; 2012.10.31) – https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/a-new-kind-of-tutoring-aims-to-make-students-smarter.html

Other

• gbrainy – https://live.gnome.org/gbrainy – a brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained. | http://sourceforge.net/projects/gbrainy/
• Pathological – http://sourceforge.net/projects/pathological/ – “an engaging puzzle game in the spirit of “Logical” byRainbow Arts. To clear a level, match the rolling marbles by collectingthem into wheels. A wide variety of board elements makes the game funand challenging.”
• Jooleem – http://sourceforge.net/projects/jooleem/ – “a simple yet extremely addictive puzzle game. The best way to kill 10 minutes. There is only one rule: click on four marbles of the same color that form a rectangle. Time is constantly running out, but you can earn time by forming rectangles.”

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Elsewhere in this blog: Intelligence (IQ) – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/intelligence/