Brain games aim to boost your IQ
BBC News reports here: Computer games have long been derided by critics as mindless, brain-rotting fun. But a new wave of games is turning the cliché on its head. Nintendo has sold nearly five million copies of its three Nintendo DS brain training games since the series launched in Japan a year ago. The first title in the series, Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?, sees players follow a daily regime of brain-enhancing exercises and is due to be released in the UK in June.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy. Inspired by cutting-edge neuroscience, it’s a full set of reading and mathematic exercises that stimulate the brain. At the start, you’ll take a series of tests and get a score that determines how old your brain is. This is your "Brain Age" — by performing daily exercises just minutes a day over weeks and months, the better you’ll get and the lower your Brain Age will get.