Session number: 6
Average n-back: 4.7
Duration (min.): 30+
I started the session strong but then I dropped back a bit. I feel more confident at n=5, but I had to do n=4 four times and an unsuccessful n=6 once… maybe tomorrow will be better.
It is strange that my audio hit rate is below the visual for the second time in succession. Maybe my brain became more efficient in storing the information. Due to the short term luck factor, I have to have more tests to find out if it is true or not.
For the first time, I clearly felt that whenever I have a brain reset situation I detailed earlier, instead of clearing all memories I had, I was able to recover some parts of the sequence and use it up. Storing blank coordinates comes handy. I also found that I was able to store two independent but short sequences in my memory which is also good.
This is not the first time that I do better in the first half than in the second. Could I just become tired or too satisfied with the improvement? Or I just cannot believe that I deserve to be at n=5 and block my performance? Who knows… The most important thing is that my score keeps improving and stabilizing. As long as there is no significant decrease, things are going OK.
Brain Fitness Pro working-memory training report.
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Hello again, Zsolt.
You’re off to a tremendous start, reaching these n levels so quickly. Good for you. I’m curious to see what you start to notice after a few more sessions. If I were a betting man, I’d say that your poker game will improve.
Martin
Hello Martin,
I assume that the growth could slow down a bit after a while, since it will become harder and harder to find shortcuts in solving the problem (e.g. memory reset, better iteration, substituting forgotten coordinates with blanks, storing 2 or more sequences in memory). After finding out most of the tricks that help you in solving the problem, scores are influenced by
1. short term memory capacity
2. current focus
3. short term luck in getting easy sequences and forgetting the parts that are not needed.
I will monitor all improvements. Unfortunately I will not develop software in the next couple of weeks and the luck factor in poker is too high in the short run to see significant change, but I can easily experiment with the number of tables I can confidently handle or with the amount of time before I feel the quality of my game drops.
Hello, Zsolt.
Yes. You’re right. Gains do slow down. But it seems to take about 50 sessions to get there. For most people, gains for those first fifty session seem to fall on a fairly straight line, with temporary ups and downs. Afterward, this rate of increase drops but does not plateau (although it can feel like a plateau).
Martin
Take a look at this chart for an example of the curve:
http://mindsparke.com/brain-training-blog/brain-exercises/working-memory-training-report-martin-session-197-2/
Hello Martin,
The graph looks great. I am really curious about what will happen in a year or so.
Zsolt