Can Tetris or other games enhance your brain? http://talentdevelop.com/1728/can-tetris-or-other-games-enhance-your-brain/ Enhancing creative expression and advanced development Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:22:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Can Tetris or other games enhance your brain? http://talentdevelop.com/1728/can-tetris-or-other-games-enhance-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-2640 GaryD Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:16:20 +0000 http://talentdevelop.com/?p=1728#comment-2640 From the post: "areas with a role in planning complex movements and coordinating sensory information—had added new cells and grown a half-millimeter thicker" Wow.. who can't use new cells for planning movement and coordinating sensory information? On top of that, activities like this help build what's called a cognitive reserve which helps us latter in life - and can even help prevent or delay the affects of alzheimers and other forms of dementia (ie. the nun study). From the post:

“areas with a role in planning complex movements and coordinating sensory information—had added new cells and grown a half-millimeter thicker”

Wow.. who can’t use new cells for planning movement and coordinating sensory information? On top of that, activities like this help build what’s called a cognitive reserve which helps us latter in life – and can even help prevent or delay the affects of alzheimers and other forms of dementia (ie. the nun study).

]]> Can Tetris or other games enhance your brain? http://talentdevelop.com/1728/can-tetris-or-other-games-enhance-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-2639 Alex Colket Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:41:55 +0000 http://talentdevelop.com/?p=1728#comment-2639 I think that playing tetris alone probably won't produce cognitive changes that carry over to your everyday life. However, combine that with a variety of other brain exercises, and you might be getting somewhere. I think the more you are able to generalize these sorts of skills and use them in different ways, the more you will see them take hold in other activities. Here's a large collection of different <a href="http://playwithyourmind.com/brain-games/online-brain-games/" rel="nofollow">brain exercises</a> to workout your attention, memory, problem solving skills and more. I think that playing tetris alone probably won’t produce cognitive changes that carry over to your everyday life. However, combine that with a variety of other brain exercises, and you might be getting somewhere. I think the more you are able to generalize these sorts of skills and use them in different ways, the more you will see them take hold in other activities.

Here’s a large collection of different brain exercises to workout your attention, memory, problem solving skills and more.

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