I feel glad that you read my posts. Also, similarly to you, I feel a sense of gratitude when I have access to tools such as Brain Fitness Pro, and to beliefs such as brain plasticity. I feel empowered by my living in an era with the technology to train brain processes.

Thanks for the information on the dual n back processes.

Several months back I read through one of Alan Baddeley’s book from the early 70′s and on the chapter dealing with aging he describes his model of the processes of working memory in terms of more or less inevitable decline. I imagine that back then it must have been frustrating for someone to read and know there was nothing much they could do to ward off a process that seemed to be fairly well understood in theory. (Not every one has bought into the central executive model, but it’s still the leading working memory model).

I imagine that a forward thinking person back then would have thought there “must be some sort of exercise to ward off working memory attenuation” but personal computers were in their womb/infancy then so one can see how the gap between the model of WM, and the individual use of that WM model to maintain and increase function, existed for such a long time (30+ years).

Excellent! Well done! A new high n-level and a new high mean n.

You’ve quoted one of the sections that particularly stood out for me. This description spells out quite clearly just why the dual n-back task represents a superior brain training exercise.

Thanks, as always, for posting,
Martin