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.

Brain Fitness Pro working-memory training report

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Session number: 8

Average n-back: 2.8

Duration (estimate in minutes): 25

I’ve started this particular brain fitness regime as someone with a specific working memory deficit and slow processing speed. This manifests as an inability to remember conversations, or even respond intelligently in real time, which can make life difficult. I imagine that means I’m working from a low base compared with others in this program. The progress is slow, but the number of n=4 trials are increasing.

A question that occurs to me with these brain training programs is whether they increase working memory generally, or whether they are task specific – i.e. the subject gets better at the task, but this doesn’t necessarily generalise to working memory as such. This becomes important as obviously any repeated activity will develop a neural map. If the new abilities don’t generalise, then you don’t want to be devoting precious resources to deep knowledge of the games, as they essentially overwrite older, less practiced skills.

So for me, this is an experiment. We’ll see how it goes.

Brain Fitness Pro working-memory training report

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Session number: 6

Average n-back: 2.65

Duration (min.): 30

Improved a little. I could go and remain some blocks at n=3. At the point that 5 blocks left, I began to feel sleepy and the concentration started to fall. Think I should overcome this problem.

Brain Fitness Pro working-memory training report.

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