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Session number: 3
Average n-back: 3
Duration (estimate in minutes): 30
When I completed n=3, I was amazed! I’ve made great progress with this program in three sessions. Now that I’m at n=4, I feel completely overwhelmed. I’m confident that I’ll be able to master n=4 very shortly though. I can already feel a significant increase in logic processing ability, particularly with numbers.
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Session number: 20
Average n-back: 4.35
Duration (estimate in minutes): hours!
Yes, got about 4 at last! For me this is slow work.
I’m wondering whether anyone has any experience of ‘Onetest’? It’s an Australian developed screening test based loosely on the Wonderlic concept of a quick assessment of cognitive aptitude. The only problem is that 1/5 of the questions have more than one valid answer – and the more creative you are, the more possible answers you can see. My husband, (double first class honours Maths & Physics, PhD Physics, leading building scientist) couldn’t immediately answer this particular line of questions.
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Session number: 10
Average n-back: 2.4
Duration (estimate in minutes): 25
Finally! Made some progress after getting off to a bad start. n=2.4
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Session number: 9
Average n-back: 2.35
Duration (estimate in minutes): 30
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Session number: 15
Average n-back: 3.65
Duration (estimate in minutes): 50
Making slow but steady progress. I feel it exercising not just my memory, but also my attention span as towards the end I start to drift. Sometimes I’m confusing letters that rhyme or have the same vowel sound (B and P, M and F).
This isn’t discouraging, so much as impetus to push past the first 19 sessions, and perhaps even to make it two sessions per day. I’m coming off a low base, after all, with measured working memory and processing speed difficulties.
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Session number: 7
Average n-back: 2
Session 7 and still feels like I’m guessing. No progress at all yet.
I’ll keep plugging away.
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Session number: 2
Average n-back: 2.8
Duration (estimate in minutes): 50
Before n-back training:
http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games/memory-games/memory-matrix
I reach two times 12 level (6900points) (playing 10 days )
After two session with n-back (level 3 with 65% of accuracy) I got to 14 level(14000 points) what was impossible to me before n-back training.
So, this simple test shows that event 2 days with n-back training can give you big results in memory.
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Session number: 11
Average n-back: 3.75
Duration (estimate in minutes): 35
Tiny little increments, but it’s getting better every day. I’ve not noticed any differences in everyday function as yet. I imagine what I’d notice is the absence of those memory-related failures during the day, rather than being able to subjectively feel a bigger memory.
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After a break of about a month I’m now three days into my renewed double-session training. Despite the time commitment I’m again finding this approach quite rewarding. I feel as though it’s already given me a needed boost in focus and follow-through. (I’ve completed several tasks in the last couple of days that had been outstanding for a while.)
Today I started with a session of “nines” and then hit a very good level of focus in a session of regular dual n-back.
"Nines" - Session 89
dual n-back - Session 261
Session number: 10
Average n-back: 3.2
Duration (estimate in minutes): 35
Two steps forward, one step back, and I’m channeling Paula Abdul. I’m thinking, if this is to have any practical effect, I’ll have to go past the 19 day mark.
Meanwhile, I have an online cognitive assessment (or IQ test, to we traditionalists) to do shortly. As long as I don’t make any careless errors it’ll be fine. You don’t do an undergrad psych degree without just about memorizing WAIS in passing.
(To be honest, it annoys me that they use IQ tests to screen employees. Firstly, the tests are limited by the IQs and imaginations of the authors – multiple choice tests are measures of expectation, not intelligence. As anyone who has done the slightest maths knows that you can define the points in a function or sequence any way you like. Secondly, IQ tests screen for those who are good at IQ tests, not necessarily the best for the specific job. But then, I’m cynical.)
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