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Enhancing Cognition with Video Games with Dr. Adam Gazzaley

Brain Matters

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Is Cognitive Training a Good Idea?

We build our games so that if you did not know that they were cognitive training tools, you would still be entertained and hopefully want to play them. So we're learning a lot more about that. It is possible that people that need to play a game for therapeutic purposes, having some elements of it that feel a little bit more like medicine is probably of value. But that's something that we're trying to figure out. We could do the recording what we call outcome measures that are done as a pre and a post test or we could record brain activity during the training period itself. And then based on that data, we start learning the active ingredients of the game that might have benefit. Once

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