Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?
Of course, you've heard about Brain Training. Not for the first month "exercise for the brain" by Professor Kawashima Ryuty (supported by the marketing department of Nintendo) is leading the sales in Japan. The phenomenal success of Brain Training symbolizes the success of Nintendo in its policy of expanding its consumer market. You've probably wondered: "Why?".

The fact is that the Brain Training - not a game. And this, perhaps, is the most obvious of its dignity and at the same time the biggest drawback. For example, people who play, frankly, to the bulb, Brain Training is much stronger than all the fancy electronic entertainment together - the availability and the apparent utility will do the trick. On the other hand, Brain Training involves routine daily brain workout, and not a familiar gameplay - which may make gamers turn away from it. My due diligence - as well as in the case of nintendosobakami - enough for a month, then every way a good "non-game" was successfully forgotten. The irony, however, is that just at the end of this month I was given remarkably easy to write articles. It seems that training still gave the fruit.

Professor Kawashima ask us for a total of nine types of exercises for the convolutions. The first two - Calculations x20 and x100 - is just a regular puzzles from the multiplication table - on speed. Reading Aloud calculate how soon you can read an excerpt from the works and will evaluate the rate in syllables per second. Low to High will offer a couple of seconds to remember the location of numbers on the screen, and then indicate their progression from low to high. Syllable Count force considered syllables randomly selected sentences, and Head Count - men, quickly entering and leaving the house. Triangle Math podnataskaet you in arithmetic in a few steps when the interim results must be kept in mind. Time Lapse show normal business hours with the face and asked how much time has passed since the previous provisions of the shooter, as shown on the screen. Finally, Voice Calculation again returns us to the arithmetic - only answer is suggested here aloud. Different combinations of these exercises to perform daily.

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?
Recognition of letters and numbers in the game sold gangbusters. Although the fours, eights and nines still have poprivyknut. "The bad news is that your brain for 48 years. Good - you can rejuvenate it with our unique methodology ... "
From time to time also worth checking out and the age of your brain. For this we use three randomly selected test of six. Word Memory akin to what psychologists often suggest to us - to remember 30 words for 2 minutes, and then 3 minutes to write as much as possible from memory.Stroop Test, as its name implies, will ask you to quickly call the color of the letters in the displayed word (ignoring the fact that the word can mean completely different color). Speed ​​Counting trust to your honesty in the bill aloud to 120, after which you are required to stop the timer. Connect Maze will present 26 circles with numbers from 1 to 13 and the letters A through M, which is necessary to connect the line to order (A-1-B-2-. ..- M-13). Number Cruncher scattered the set of digits on the screen in different colors and behavior, and asks to count the number of digits for a particular type (for example, "only red" or "just moving"). The last of the checks on the youth of the convolutions are traditional Calculations x20. Based on the results of a virtual Ryuta Kawashima its verdict on the age of your brain. And not even think mogite that at times, do all the tasks and to throw the cartridge. Certainly not!

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? Briefly about Sudoku
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?


"Sudoku" in Japanese means "primes." Goal of the game - fill in the 9 to 9 digits, so that each row, column and 3x3 box numbers are not repeated. In the Japanese version of Brain Training Sudoku was not - discharge the same puzzles have been added because of their enormous popularity in the West.

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?
The famous Japanese puzzle game Sudoku - in itself a great reason to buy Brain Training Graphs demonstrate your progress and compare it with other users of your cartridge
Every now and then Brain Training will pop you and puzzles on the development of memory. Recall, for example, what you ate for breakfast three days ago, or draw from memory the kangaroo - weak? For those who are simply not enough brain exercise, Brain Training offers as many as 120 Sudoku puzzles of different difficulty levels. Well, if your cartridge will the profiles of other players (his brother? Sisters? "Mom?" Grandpa? Pretty odnogruppnitsy?), The daily brain workout and personal instruction "meandering" Dr. inflame adversarial zeal.

Brain Training copes with its main task - makes Smart people work. But does not provide sufficient motivation to continuously engage in training (often to meet with pretty odnogruppnitsey?). However, the following parts of the approach. Yes, and from clones is already not breathe.

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? Train your brain to remember the name
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?


Original title Brain Training can rightly be considered the longest of all unseen by us. «Tohoku Daigaku Mirai Kagaku Gijutsu Kyoudou Kenkyu Senta Kawashima Ryuta-kyouju Kanshuu: Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Toreningu», - says a box with a Japanese version of the game. Approximate translation goes like this: "Professor, Center for joint research of future technologies at the University of Tohoku Ryuta Kawashima Presents: Train your brain - DS-training for adults."

Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?