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As we mature, we occasionally feel that we would like to give our maybe failing brain performance a bit of a supercharge. One method of improving memory and other brain skills appears to be brain training. This comprises a variety of computer activities developed to help you become better qualified at different brain functions for instance memory, problem-solving and basic mathematics. Strangely enough though, we have a tendency to feel that because we progress at playing the brain training games, that these competencies are automatically transferable and therefore beneficial in other brain functions that we have to execute.

You might be forgiven for thinking that all the brain training games have been designed taking the ever-increasing body of brain science into account. Indeed, a lot is already known about the neurological underpinnings of how memory is laid down in the first place, and then improved. Maybe they have been designed this way, but where is the evidence of how successful you can be using these exercises?

Well, recently the very revealing results of a large UK study into the effectiveness of brain exercises on improving memory etc. have been published, and they are probably not what you would have predicted. BBC television conducted this research in conjunction with the British Medical Research Council and the Alzheimer’s Society.

They took on thirteen thousand adult volunteers to take part in their rigorous experiment for about one and a half months. The objective was to determine whether exercising the brain on a number of activities designed to utilize different regions of the brain (such as the temporal lobes for memory and the parietal lobes for mathematics), would strengthen brain abilities, such as memory and problem-solving skills.

The volunteers were divided into an experimental group and a control group. The first group did a broad range of brain exercises, including ones for improving memory, for ten minutes every other day for six weeks. Since the tasks were internet-based, the control group just used the internet for the same amount of time. At the end of the trial period, the brain training group was retested on the brain exercises and was found to be 33 per cent better at performing the brain games they had trained on.

The purpose of the study was to discover whether becoming competent at brain training activities would result in improvement in the same skills when employed in a different framework. So both groups of test subjects were tested prior to and after the study in their ability to carry out activities such as problem-solving and recalling number sequences.

If you believe that brain training games can play a part in improving memory, then you might find the results a little surprising. There was actually a small improvement in the performance of both groups and what’s more this improvement was virtually identical in the two groups. So even though there was some improvement, the lack of statistical significance between the two sets’ results means that this could not be attributed to the training.

However, people who enjoy brain exercises should not lose heart. Firstly, speaking from personal experience, if nothing else, they are a lot of fun! Beyond that, even though you should not expect them to help with improving memory, there are certainly a number of other strategies for improving your memory and other mental abilities, which have been scientifically-proven. These include diet, reading, taking physical exercise and listening to music.

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