{"id":2921,"date":"2018-01-05T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2018-01-04T22:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T22:01:34","slug":"brain-training-flim-flam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/brain-training-flim-flam\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolish “Brain Training” Flim-Flam of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I live in Boston. I’m a Tom Brady fan. But, good heavens, his Brain Training program looks like snake oil.<\/p>\n

The website (and, no, I’m not providing a link) uses all the right buzzwords: “brain plasticity,” “personalize,” “money-back guarantee!”<\/p>\n

Some of the claims have a surface plausibility. You can, in fact, train your ability to track objects in space. Video games can do that for you, too.<\/p>\n

But the idea that all of this comes together to promote “brain speed” and “intelligence” seems laughable. (I don’t know what “brain speed” even means.)<\/p>\n

The Recent History of “Brain Training”<\/h2>\n

Always remember: Lumosity was fined<\/a> $2,000,000 for making false claims sounding like these. I suppose it’s possible that Brady’s Brain Team has cracked a code that no one else has. But, it seems\u00a0mightily unlikely.<\/p>\n

I’m so vexed that I’m tempted to make a joke about Deflate-gate. For a Patriots fan, that’s as bad as it gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Brady’s new “Brain Training” Website looks a lot like earlier attempts to over-hype thinly supported brain research. Don’t fall for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,25,19],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-intelligence","tag-neuromyths","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}