
80 Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?
Inquiring Minds
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Neuroplasticity Training Games Can Actually Improve Your Muscles
You actually think that neuroplasticity as applied to these games can actually benefit us are we way ahead of the research. The biggest problem in brain training games is what we call transfer which means if i do this task then i might be able to get better at a very similar task right so for example if i learn to play the piano maybe i can get better at some kind of you know keyboard sequencing something like that also uses my fingers That's called near transfer and there's evidence that these kinds of training programs do show near transfer effects but the problem is that what we really want to see is far transfer.
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