{"id":1957,"date":"2017-05-01T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2017-12-26T21:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T21:55:46","slug":"dont-take-the-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/dont-take-the-bait\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Take the Bait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_113874849_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1958 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_113874849_Credit-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_113874849_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_113874849_Credit-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AdobeStock_113874849_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some days I wonder if I have linked to too many articles debunking claims about &#8220;brain training games.&#8221;\u00a0Invariably, as soon as this thought crosses my mind, I hear another advertisement for Lumosity, and I realize that I haven&#8217;t linked to debunking articles often enough.<\/p>\n<p>So, as my public service for today, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fnagi.2017.00041\/full\" target=\"_blank\">another\u00a0study<\/a> that makes this point:<\/p>\n<p>People who practiced games that were supposed to improve working memory got better at the games, but they didn&#8217;t get better at other working memory tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way: you might decide to spend $15 a month for the fun of playing such games. But, don&#8217;t do so because you think they&#8217;ll help your cognitive functioning. So far, we just don&#8217;t have good evidence that they do.<\/p>\n<p>(Just as a reminder: Lumosity was <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4169123\/lumosity-2-million-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\">fined<\/a> $ 2,000,000 for deceptive advertising.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I wonder if I have linked to too many articles debunking claims about &#8220;brain training games.&#8221;\u00a0Invariably, as soon as this thought crosses my mind, I hear another advertisement for Lumosity, and I realize that I haven&#8217;t linked to debunking articles often enough. So, as my public service for today, here&#8217;s another\u00a0study that makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,30],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-neuromyths","tag-working-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}