Re:Neuroscience: Under Attack
by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday November 23, 2012 @07:27PM
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"Neuroscience" as a word is abused too much.
Half the time that I watch a YouTube video, I see a "Lumosity.com" advert that tells me it "just feels like games" but it's "serious brain training" and "based on neuroscience".
Based on neuroscience my ass. It's a glorified DS Brain Training (Brain Age in US) but you have to pay for it.
Re:Neuroscience: Under Attack
by Evbn on Saturday November 24, 2012 @12:57PM
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It is based on neuroscience, just like exercise routines are based on bioscience. It may be low tech, but that doesn't make it wrong. "lifting with your knees, not back" is utterly simple, but it is back by sound biokinematics.
Half the time that I watch a YouTube video, I see a "Lumosity.com" advert that tells me it "just feels like games" but it's "serious brain training" and "based on neuroscience".
Based on neuroscience my ass. It's a glorified DS Brain Training (Brain Age in US) but you have to pay for it.