BOSTON: A researcher is building a repertoire of games that could one day help us reduce or even reverse the impact on our cognitive faculties of disorders such as Alzheimer’s, or deficits caused by brain trauma. He is attempting to discover whether “we can use this approach to really make a difference.”
“Humans have been consumed with high-level performance throughout history. We have, however, historically proven far better at applying a proven structure to achieving this when physical fitness is involved, not mental.”
“What can we do to improve cognition, emotional regulation and all these other processing areas? In this regard we are tragically lacking,” he said. “Traditional education has been about transferring educational content, not optimising these fundamental underlying information processing systems. And with people with deficits, we see these same problems…