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Kidman’s doing it, Ronan Keating’s

doing it, even Girls Aloud are doing it. Seems like everyone’s doing a little

brain training these days. But with conflicting scientific reports it’s

difficult to know if these games really work, and whether they can make a

difference to how you perform as an owner manger.

In recent years brain-training computer games

have become enormously popular, mainly due to being associated with staving

off degenerative cognitive conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and

improving IQ. While the most popular game, Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain

Training, has achieved worldwide sales of almost 15 million, other games such

as Wii’s Big Brain Academy and Playstation’s Brain Challenge are also very

successful. However, the jury is still out on whether these games actually

improve your mental capabilities.

Many commercial entertainment-based brain-training

games are derived from standard clinical tests that have been used by

psychologists to asses the effects of brain damage. Checking verbal ability,

numerical ability and attention, it has been argued that they can improve

your mental faculties by lowering your ‘brain age’ and ‘training’ your brain

to be more intelligent.

However, Dr Bird, of the Institute of

Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, doesn’t believe that

these games are any more beneficial for increasing IQ than other forms of

puzzles. “You’re basically doing some tasks again

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