Everybody has experienced working on a task, then being interrupted by the swooshing sound of the email icon popping up ... By playing a “brain training” game, called Decoder, players can ...

A battle has been brewing over whether brain training really works, leaving consumers stuck in the middle, scratching their heads. Many experts believe that brain-training programs are a waste of ...

The Brain Workshop main screen. You can also add a launcher to your Gnome or KDE panel to make starting Brain Workshop easier. For an icon for the launcher, there's a handy .png file inside the ...

Though it may not look very different from other (dubiously beneficial) brain-training games, Brain Workshop is special in that there’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that it may actually ...

“With brain training, the benefits are mostly quite specific,” Pexman said. That’s why it’s unlikely that “getting very, very good at Wordle” would make your brain “very good at ...

Brain-training software may be a waste of time. People who played “mind-boosting” games made the same modest cognitive gains as those who spent a similar amount of time surfing the web.

It may be possible to stave off depression before it even appears using brain-training software so simplistic in its design that even the psychologist testing it once bet it wouldn’t work.

A battle has been brewing over whether brain training really works, leaving consumers stuck in the middle, scratching their heads. Many experts believe that brain-training programs are a waste of ...