{"id":3124,"date":"2010-04-21T18:44:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T23:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2010-04-21T18:44:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T23:44:43","slug":"brain-training-games-dont-train-your-brain-thinq-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"Brain training games don&#8217;t train your brain | THINQ.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinq.co.uk\/news\/2010\/4\/21\/brain-training-games-dont-train-your-brain\/\">Brain training games don&#8217;t train your brain<\/a> according to a study by Adrian Owen of the Cambridge Medical Research Council.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The participants were subjected to a barrage of cognitive test before and after the experiment but the study found that they showed no improvement when compared to a control group which just buggered about on the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story come via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8630588.stm\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain training games don&#8217;t train your brain according to a study by Adrian Owen of the Cambridge Medical Research Council. The participants were subjected to a barrage of cognitive test before and after the experiment but the study found that they showed no improvement when compared to a control group which just buggered about on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brain training games don&#8217;t train your brain | THINQ.co.uk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}