you know the score you get on brain training.... does it actually mean anything?

[ingles2]

Or is it all a load of rubbish?
just wondering cos ds1 (G&T) got a pretty amazing score the 1st time he went on it..

[ingles2]

Sorry I mean brain training/ brain academy on the Nintendo ds

[choccypig]

If I can improve my score from 80s to 20(!) by doing the puzzles a few times over a few weeks, there can't be all that much science in it. I think it just proves that you can "train" your brain, especially in memory tests.

Also I notice that the same memory words come up again. In fact that's how I scored age 20, because I did the word memory test twice in one day. It was the exact same 30 words so (naturally) I remembered them all.

[TotalChaos]

IMO no. I find it far more of an intellectual challenge to try and read a book or article in a foreign language I studied at schoo, than to do the brain training puzzles.

[ingles2]

Thought so....
but still, shame, thought I had a genius in the making

[Blandmum]

It is like any sort of puzzle, if you do them regularly, you get better at them.

[ingles2]

This was our first go though...

[blousy]

No, I am but 20 on my ds's brain trainig, I am a genius

[Hulababy]

Well I am 20 according to both our Brain Trainging 1 and 2 games - so I don;t think it mans too much TBH.

[ingles2]

we played bigbrain academy...
it tells you your brain weight (!)
it says 700g is average untrained 1400 average trained..
so our 1st go
I got 1200 (but I do lots of this sort of thing for work)
dh got 680
ds2 (7 this week,..his pressie) got 350
ds1 (8.5) got 1000!!!!!!!

[ingles2]

have to admit... proud mummy
(even though it's ridiculous)

[choccypig]

I think there might be something in the theory that younger people would be better at some things. My DS is great at counting the little people going in and out the house, he seems to be able to add and subtract simultaneously, but his score on the words written in the wrong colours has gone down a lot since he learnt to read.

[ingles2]

Ah,...no, come on...
humour me.. our dc's are quite quite brilliant!