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Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Session number: 2
Average n-back: 2.1
Duration (estimate in minutes): 15
Not a great performance. I really wish I would have done better. Stressed out today, and am doing this session in a Starbucks Coffee on my laptop – I could have chosen a better place to do this work, one that doesn’t field all kinds of competing visual and auditory stimuli.
Got to N=3 twice, but demoted back to N=2 immediately afterwards. However, the second time I was advanced to N=3 my score reflected less errors made (though a similar number of misses).
Looking forward to making better progress tomorrow, and wrapping up some anxiety-causing issues that may be running interference in mastering this game.
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Session number: 06
Average n-back: 2.3
Duration (estimate in minutes): 15
After completing my first four sessions in stage three, I was unable to reach N3; this is very discouraging. It seems that my advances are minuscule in comparison to the time spent. Continuing diligently though, with the hope that if consistent, my cognitive abilities will gradually increase.
Over the last several months i have focused on my sleep, nutrition, and exercise. This is beginning to show some promise. Being constant in these areas has afforded me noticeable improvements in my attention, short term memory, and processing speed.
During Session 5,6, finally, I have broken through, to some extent, and was able to advance six times to N3. Obviously I would rather be a N4 or N5, but in time these levels will be attainable.
Merry Christmas to all.
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
Session number: 19
Average n-back: 5.75
Duration (estimate in minutes): 30
I finished the 19 sessions. From a starting point of difficulty with n-3 I got to where I did reasonably well with n-6. I only have a few n-7.
After a little more than a week I tried another session to see if there was any loss of progress. I averaged 5.70 so not much difference.
As a base line I took the GIQtest online at the start and again at a week after finishing the course. I had a gain of 10 points. I actually did better in areas I did not think the training would affect. Maybe it is concentration improvement. I will continue on at 2 or 3 sessions per week and see if I can get past that n-6 mark.
Subjectively I have seen improvements in various activities. Filling out forms and remembering things like my passport number without looking back several times. My German lessons seem to go better. I retain the words better.
One of my main goals was to improve my chess playing through better memory. This will not be instant since the improvement is not by just memory but by what has been memorized, at least partly. But I have to say that my analysis of positions without moving the pieces has improved already and this is a help.
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This post was submitted by Ray Wagner.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Anson from Colorado contacted us to tell us of his experience with the MCATs and training with Brain Fitness Pro. He mentions a jump in score from 27 to 34. This is equivalent to a percentile increase for the MCATs from around the 60th percentile to around the 92nd percentile:
“I just wanted to let you know that for the past year I had been studying to retake my MCAT’s in January. My dad had mentioned your product and so I decided I would give it a shot. I used it for 6 months, while I studied the exam material. I got my results back in March and my score jumped from a 27 to a 34. I was pretty astounded by the results since the average score either increases or decreases at most by 3 points when the score is close to a 30. I have no idea what happened, but I definitely have to attribute some of the success to your program. I would have emailed you earlier, but I have been busy as of late. I just wanted to let you know that I felt like your program works and that hopefully it can help others succeed.”
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Session number: 20
Average n-back: 4.35
Duration (estimate in minutes): hours!
Yes, got about 4 at last! For me this is slow work.
I’m wondering whether anyone has any experience of ‘Onetest’? It’s an Australian developed screening test based loosely on the Wonderlic concept of a quick assessment of cognitive aptitude. The only problem is that 1/5 of the questions have more than one valid answer – and the more creative you are, the more possible answers you can see. My husband, (double first class honours Maths & Physics, PhD Physics, leading building scientist) couldn’t immediately answer this particular line of questions.
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Session number: 2
Average n-back: 2.8
Duration (estimate in minutes): 50
Before n-back training:
http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games/memory-games/memory-matrix
I reach two times 12 level (6900points) (playing 10 days )
After two session with n-back (level 3 with 65% of accuracy) I got to 14 level(14000 points) what was impossible to me before n-back training.
So, this simple test shows that event 2 days with n-back training can give you big results in memory.
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Anne, MD and Harvard medical school grad, successfully gained entry to Mensa after training with Brain Fitness Pro.
“I took a Mensa home test prior to the training and didn’t pass…. Then I did the full training course, took the actual Mensa test, and got in! I’m very satisfied with the training.”
Do you have a brain training success story to share? Please let me know at martin@mindsparke.com
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Berkeley neuroscientist Dr. Silvia Bunge and her team devised two clever programs to determine whether carefully selected training exercises could boost IQ and processing speed. The experiment, which sounds akin to building a kit car out of hardware store purchases, involved underprivileged children with lower than average cognitive scores. The researchers involved them in 20 hours of after-school game and puzzle play. One group focused on reasoning exercises, the other on pure processing speed.
The results were a dramatic increase in IQ of 13 points for the reasoning group, and a similarly dramatic increase in processing speed for the processing speed group. (There was no cross-over — the training boosted the scores for the specific function being trained.)
See the full article.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Session number: 19
Average n-back: 4.30
Duration (min.): 35+
Well, my first training block is done. The highlight of this session was the one round @ n=5 where I managed but 3 misses, sadly I did not managed to get under 7 misses on n=5 the rest of the session. Reading this it may sound like I am still focussed on the numbers, it is only after the session that I review my scores; during this session I checked my score only once, about halfway through.
My focus was improved this session, though sometimes I was nearly falling asleep due to the “mind stillness” I experienced.
I retook the iqtestlab test and scored 147, the cieling for that test, a 9 point improved. I don’t think it is a very good baseline test as it is very short, but it is nice to see a high number like 147 associated with my IQ.
The test at smartestofus should serve its purpose as a meter of progress far better as the questions do not repeat. The problem with the smartestofus test is that the numbers are skewed was up, my IQ is certainly not the 158.50 IQ reported by that site, regardless it should serve well to measure my progress.
P.S. I restarted my BFP session after my week long break because I thought it would be futile to continue after such a long break, so I do not have a BFP made chart with my entire progress on it. If there does end up being on in this post I made it.
Hmm, after looking at that graph my gains seem a little bit more linear than I had thought they were towards the end. My vigour for training is reignited.
This post was submitted by Joe.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Hello braintrainers,
I’ve been away from the blog for some time, mainly because Ive shifted into maintenance mode. After 200+ sessions of BFP dual n back, I dont feel the need to track my progress on n back — I only do bf pro a few times a week now.
However, about a week ago, thanks to Martin reminding me about the Get y test, I decided to re-take it. Back in August, I took the test but there were some problems both with the amount of time I took on it (less than an hour) and the results I received which may or may not have been valid according to a problem with the scoring. For this
reason, I do not consider the first result as any baseline to compare my second attempt to: since it is either invalid or not reflective of my best efforts (or both).
My second attempt (a second attempt is allowed) yielded a balanced score of 12, or IQ 143, according to age range, so 99.78%ile. I read Martin, Dave, and Shauns scores as well. Well done!
This result reflects my best effort and I spent close to about 4 hours total on it and took it as a “power test” rather than just a speed test, which is what this sort of high range test requires absolutely. Could I have scored higher with 10 hours on it? Maybe, but I feel Im operating near or at my genetic potential (in a similar way one might realize their physical genetic potential after working out at a gym for a year).
I expressed to Martin my reservations about the Get-y as a measurement of IQ since it is taking only a self selected
group of people with above average IQs
who attempt the test and ergo the full range of ability isnt considered.
What this means is G loadings for the test will be go down, and the S factor will go up. The S factor here is the visual spatial factor and its measured maybe even more than G is. Those reservations aside, the test strikes me as one that is highly G loaded, in addition measuring a specific factor. If one is interested in this issue of high range testing have a look here (scroll down to get to the meat of the issue):
http://www.megasociety.com/noesis/141/towers.html
To the point: did my IQ (level of G) improve by grinding out dual n back for about year? It seems so. But I have also been doing a other things to improve my visual spatial abilities (the S factor) so this confounds the issue. Also, I have never taken a pure visual spatial power test at the very high level of Get-Y, so comparison to some average online IQ test with mixed items is apples to oranges. (The great majority of online tests are not worth paying attention to at all).
I think the get y gives an estimate of ones visual reasoning abilities that are the best one can find online…but again I would like to see correlatons with tests like the RAPM. The test was a challenge regardless, and I do feel confident that working memory increase accounts for a significant portion of the ostensible gains I have made…
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