Mind360 - Brain Training Games

What tricks do you use to remember things?

In June 2003, world memory champion Andi Bell set a new record by memorizing 100 decks of playing cards. After spending five hours committing each deck to memory, he was tested on random cards from every pack, and was able to recall 89 of the 100 decks on which he was tested at London's British Museum.

How did he do it? He recorded each card by imagining combinations of objects and places and then dividing them into sequences. When asked to identify the 17th card in the 53rd deck, for example, he immediately visualised Socrates throwing a dart at a pear to correctly answer the Jack of Spades!

Mind360 is interested in featuring our fans who have great stories to tell about remembering things - either your own story or one of someone you know. Let us know!

The memory games at mind360 are scientifically developed to improve your memory. Visit www.mind360.com to challenge and develop your memory - and they're a lot of fun, too!

Women are Winning the Battle of the Sexes

At Mind360 we don’t just provide online brain games to help you improve your cognitive skills, we actively seek to gain and disseminate a better understanding of how the brain functions. In helping you to enhance your memory skills we gather a huge amount of information (always anonymously) and analyze it to highlight trends in the world.

Our data analysts supported by a team of leading psychologists has identified a somewhat startling fact (to some perhaps, but not to others!)

Women are outsmarting men in their cognitive skills according to games scores on the Mind360 brain training website.

Our system is continually collating the numbers and we welcome more men and women to join the challenge and have a chance to influence the outcome of the Battle of the Sexes

Despite all the arguments over whether or not it is possible to train your brain and actually improve your cognitive abilities, most experts agree that mental stimulation is an effective way to maintain a healthy brain. In other words, use it or lose it.

So can watching the tube help enhance your memory, ability to pay attention, or any other cognitive skills? It really depends on the sort of programs you are watching and how actively engaged you are.

Good TV, Bad TV

If a program requires you to think and form speculations and ideas, your brain is being challenged and exercised. Unfortunately most TV shows demand mere passive viewing, which may present a challenge for toddlers, but little, if any, benefit for adults.

Playing video games, on the other hand, is generally more challenging and highly interactive, helping you to boost your reaction speed and divided attention. At the end of the day, however, the best mental workouts are those games designed for and focused on the task at hand, that is, brain training.

Steve Daitch is the Social Media Manager at Mind360.com - a leading scientific brain training games developer for boosting your memory, attention, executive functions, reasoning, and other key cognitive skills. As a Mind360 visitor you simply select your own Personal Training Program, which comes complete with a personal coach and constant feedback to ensure your swift and visible progress.