Neuroracer Game Free Download

NeuroRacer
Developer(s)	University of California, San Francisco
Director(s)	Adam Gazzaley
Release	2013
Genre(s)	Physical therapy
Mode(s)	Single-player

A Multitasking Video Game Makes Old Brains Act Younger (The New York Times): “ Brain scientists have discovered that swerving around cars while simultaneously picking out road signs in a video game can improve the short-term memory and long-term focus Read more about Study: Well-targeted brain training videogame can lead to real-life benefits. So imagine my excitement on reading the headline: ‘Brain training video games may reverse cognitive decline in old age.’ According to the journal Nature, when people in their sixties played a simple driving game called NeuroRacer, three hours a week for a month, their multitasking abilities, attention span and short-term memory improved. Brain games: free games for brain training - Cognitive Enhancement with your “natural Nootropic” - Kindle edition by Ar, Frank. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Brain games: free games for brain training - Cognitive Enhancement with your “natural Nootropic”. Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing. “As you get older, it seems harder to do more things at once,” she says. Then she enrolled in a study to test whether playing a game could improve fading cognitive skills in older people — and was impressed by what it did for her. “I was frustrated because I felt I was. Neuroracer, the first cognitive optimization video game from the Gazzaley Lab, was launched in 2008 with a general design by Dr. Gazzaley and development by game professionals from LucasArts. It uses adaptive algorithms to simultaneously challenge players.

NeuroRacer is a video game designed by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco led by Adam Gazzaley as a way to help with mental cognition. It was designed as an 'Adam Gazzaley intervention' for 'top-down modulation deficits in older adults.'^[1] A study on 60- to 85-year-olds showed that the multitasking nature of the game caused improvements in tasks outside of the game involving working memory and sustained attention.^[2]

A 2013 review concluded that there is no good medical evidence to support claims that memory training helps people improve cognitive functioning.^[3] However, Neuroracer differs from conventional 'memory training' apps, in that it focuses on multi-tasking in a virtual environment.

On June 25, 2020, the University of California published an online news article entitled: 'The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first video game therapeutic as a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, based on research by UC San Francisco’s Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D.'^[4]^[5]

Notes[edit]

^Adam Gazzaley (September 4, 2013). 'NeuroRacer Study'. University of California, San Francisco: Gazzaley Lab. Archived from the original on March 2, 2018. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
^Anguera, J. A.; Boccanfuso, J.; Rintoul, J. L.; Al-Hashimi, O.; Faraji, F.; Janowich, J.; Kong, E.; Larraburo, Y.; Rolle, C.; Johnston, E.; Gazzaley, A. (2013). 'Video game training enhances cognitive control in older adults'. Nature. 501 (7465): 97–101. Bibcode:2013Natur.501...97A. doi:10.1038/nature12486. PMC3983066. PMID24005416.
^Melby-Verlag, M. & Hulme, C. (February 2013). 'Is Working Memory Training Effective? A Meta-Analytic Review'. Developmental Psychology. 49 (2): 270–291. doi:10.1037/a0028228. PMID22612437.
^Laura Kurtzman, UCSF (June 25, 2020). 'FDA approves video game based on UCSF brain research as ADHD therapy for kids'. University of California. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
^'FDA Permits Marketing of First Game-Based Digital Therapeutic to Improve Attention Function in Children with ADHD'. Food and Drug Administration. June 15, 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-26.

References[edit]

Jon Hamilton. 'Multitasking After 60: Video Game Boosts Focus, Mental Agility'. National Public Radio. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
'Neuroracer: A Video Game to Sharpen the Mind'. Wall Street Journal. September 4, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
Alok Jha (September 4, 2013). 'Brain-training video games may help reverse cognitive decline in old age'. The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
Matt Richtel (September 4, 2013). 'A Multitasking Video Game Makes Old Brains Act Younger'. Business Day: technology. New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
J. A. Anguera; J. Boccanfuso; J. L. Rintoul; F. Faraji; J. Janowich; E. Kong; Y. Larraburo; C. Rolle; E. Johnston; A. Gazzaley; O. Al-Hashimi (5 September 2013). 'Video game training enhances cognitive control in older adults'. Nature. 501 (7465): 97–101. Bibcode:2013Natur.501...97A. doi:10.1038/nature12486. PMC3983066. PMID24005416.

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