excerpts from Matt Wall at
http://computingforpsychologists.wordpress.com:
The only treadmill your brain should be on is a hedonic one.
So-called brain-training tools seem to have exploded in the last few years; one estimate puts it at a $6 billion
market by 2020. It’s clearly become a major industry, but what’s less
clear is exactly what it does, and if it even works. ...
a bewildering
array of businesses starting up, making all kinds of wild claims, and
playing on the fears of educators and parents...
Some of them even seem to cater to businesses who want their employees to do these ‘exercises’. ....
...a quick
glance at their Scientific Advisory Board
is pretty revealing – I count only one (clinical) psychologist, and a
grab-bag of other professionals – mostly teachers (qualified to Masters
level) with an optometrist, a chemical engineer and an audiologist. Not a
single neuroscientist, and only a few qualified at doctorate level. ....
... you could
even try and get your kid to (Heaven forfend!) read the odd book now and
again.
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