These games don't make you smarter, but they improve yourefficiently abilities, making you think more effective, faster and more efficient, but you don't gain real knowledge.
Brain games: do they really make you smarter?
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 12:05 PM
dont think they make you smarter, i think they increase your memory rating, so you can remember why you went in a room. Everyone knows what i mean, when you walk into a room and you forgot why and you start asking yourself? Thats why those games come in handyspam na! i need some poin !!
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 04:44 PM
i don't think it would make us smarter but it gets our brains going and makes us think. it's also fun to play! 
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 05:03 PM
i guess theyre interactive and make u think but they dont make u smarter or anyting. If it did, maybe just a little bit.If you're stupid.
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 05:49 PM
I don't think it will make you smarter. It just tries to make your brain work every day. Practice, practice, practice......
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 09:07 PM
i heard that nintendo sent a copy of this to Bush on his birthday a while ago. Obviously it doesn't make you smarter.
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 09:21 PM
these games just "excercises" ur brain. But it doesnt make u smarter..u arent gonna all of the sudden be a doctor or a engineer becacuse u play these games.
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 10:20 PM
Heh I doubt that. They just say that cause they want money. 
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Posted 16 February 2007 - 11:10 PM
I don't think so I think they might help a little but make you smarter I don't think so.Hi,I have been playing these brain games (brain acad and so on..)My Question is, do you really think they make u smarter? or do they just make u practice answering the same questions??WHAT YAAA THINK??
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 12:16 AM
Anyway it's useful And enjoyable!
And enjoyable!
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 12:37 AM
It won't make you any smarter, but that doesnt mean it isn't fun to play.
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 12:49 AM
Well it depends on what you classify "smarter" as... no it won't teach you how to do anything useful. However these games exercise the learning part of the brain and allow you to gain information quicker therefore making you smarter. It is a proven fact that humans have an aptitude for learning language during the first few years of life, however in time this ability is lost because it becomes inactive due to lack of stimulation. These game force you to "think outside the box" which in turn stimulates parts of the brain. Also as for repeating the same questions over and over, this stimulates memory and allows you to expand the long-term memory portion of the brain.
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 01:18 AM
Yea, I agree. I thought Brain Age was okay...for about five minutes. Then I was like, "Eh...I can live with a fifty year old brain."
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 05:20 AM
they do! like brain age makes me feel more awake, helps me wit math and skills. glad they made em. cuz im sailing into an A+
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 07:22 PM
for me, those games are for increasing logic and other smart-person attributesfor me, those games are for increasing logic and other smart-person attributes
yeah that happens to me on occaision! is that called memory block?I dont think they make you smarter, i think they increase your memory rating, so you can remember why you went in a room.
Everyone knows what i mean, when you walk into a room and you forgot why and you start asking yourself? Thats why those games come in handy.
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 11:18 PM
nintendo has been trashing our brains for so long with weird games, and now they want to repair damage? i think it doesn't matter.
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Posted 18 February 2007 - 01:10 AM
heheh.. don't think it made me smarter... But some of them are quite funny...
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Posted 18 February 2007 - 01:41 AM
Well, my score was better the second time I played it, so I think I either got smarter, or I got faster. I think that they don't make you smarter, but make you faster at reacting. Maybe that's the purpose of the game. I just like to play for fun.
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Posted 18 February 2007 - 01:50 AM
My mom loves that game alot! She always uses my bro's DS, her brain age never rised though.
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Posted 18 February 2007 - 09:27 AM
Only if you think it does. But I think they were made just to show how well the stylus works.
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Posted 23 February 2007 - 12:52 PM
i hate brain games Then don't post, or at least explain why. POINTS were deducted for this post by Bish
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Posted 23 February 2007 - 11:33 PM
I don't think they actually make you smarter.. they just help you keep your brain sharp, cuz all of the questions are pretty easy.
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Posted 24 February 2007 - 03:51 AM
Although the brain cannot surpass its initial IQ (without becoming a savant, or doing something miraculous, or just taking your vitamins 
), IQ usually deteriorates over time. The less you use your brain on new problems, problems simple as brushing your teeth with your left hand in the morning, the faster it deteriorates. By stretching your mind muscle, you can reverse the deterioration, well, deteriorates the wrong word here, its more like locking away. So playing games like this prevents your mind from slipping and if combined with other unique experiences and (non frustrating) problems, im sure they can.
), IQ usually deteriorates over time. The less you use your brain on new problems, problems simple as brushing your teeth with your left hand in the morning, the faster it deteriorates. By stretching your mind muscle, you can reverse the deterioration, well, deteriorates the wrong word here, its more like locking away. So playing games like this prevents your mind from slipping and if combined with other unique experiences and (non frustrating) problems, im sure they can.
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Posted 24 February 2007 - 05:20 AM
I don't think so. It looks like another company just trying to earn profits with their generic thinking tests
