Memory
Virtual Iraq
"Virtual Iraq is a set of virtual reality environments created to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) combat service men and
Mental Health
Stress and Coping
Young Adults
Iraq
Iraq War
Medicine
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Psychology
Reality
Technology
Virtual reality
Virtual reality therapy
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TeachTown: Basics Home
TeachTown is a web-based educational program developed to help children improve in various subject areas taught in school.
Cognition
Social Issues and Skills
Subscription
Autism
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Childhood psychiatric disorders
Clinical psychology
Educational software
Neurological disorders
Pervasive developmental disorders
Psychology
Technology
Internet
http://web.teachtown.com/products/teachtown-basics-home
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TeachTown: Basics Classroom
"TeachTown: Basics Classroom combines computer lessons with offline activities for students who are developmentally 2 to 7 years old.
Cognition
Social Issues and Skills
Classroom
Span and div
Technology
Website
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http://web.teachtown.com/products/teachtown-basics-classroom
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Lumosity
"Luminosity is a site specializing in mental-challenge games to test your speed, reflexes and smarts. The site boasts that regularly playing games on the site will increase your mental acuity and smarts. Luminosity is designed to provide the brain with a 10-minute workout per day, which is said to improve the health and function of the brain over time...The site offers free accounts to new visitors, which requires only a valid email account. Registered users have access to a number of games that are designed to develop greater mental speed, memory, attention, flexibility and problem solving."
Cognition
Mental Health
Online
Register
Luminosity
Lumosity
Physics
Technology
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Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events
Simons, D. J., & Chabris, C. F. (1999). Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events. Perception, 28, 1059-1074.
Young Adults
Blindness
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Chabris
Cognition
Daniel Simons
Document
Inattentional blindness
Neuropsychological assessment
Perception
Psychology
Unsolved problems in neuroscience
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Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software is a collection of free, online educational games, puzzles, and activities designed to teach young minds about health and improve understanding in various school related subjects.
Puzzle
Cognition
Online
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Brain fitness
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Cognition
Nervous system
Neurology
Nintendo
Sudoku
Technology
Touch! Generations
Video games
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Big Brain Academy
Big Brain Academy is a brain-training puzzle game that provides cognitive challenges in five categories: think, analyze, memorize, compute, and identify. Players achieve their "brain weight" and discover their areas of strength and weakness. “Brain weight” increases as players complete the activities faster.
Puzzle
Cognition
Brain Age
Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Brain Challenge
Brain fitness
Games
Neurology
Nintendo
Technology
Touch! Generations
Video games
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Basketball Attention Experiment
This game was used in a study by Simons and Chabris (1999) about sustained inattentional blindness. Players watch a video of people in a circle tossing two basketballs to each other and they are asked to count how many times the basketballs change hands. While focused on this task, players often fail to notice unexpected objects that appear in the scene.
Online
Basketball
Blindness
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Chabris
Cognition
Daniel Simons
Gorillas
Inattentional blindness
Psychology
Technology
XML
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Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
This brain-training puzzle game offers fifteen mini-games sorted into five categories: identify, memorize, analyze, compute, and visualize. Multi-player, competitive, and cooperative play modes are available.
Puzzle
Cognition
Brain Age
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Games
History of video games
Neurology
Nintendo
Technology
Touch! Generations
Video games
Wii
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Brain Circuit Central
A free, online game, Brain Circuit Central engages players in a brain-themed memory game. Players must memorize the pattern in which the neurons light up. Every time players miss the correct pattern, more and more neurons appear creating more complicated patterns to correctly memorize.
Cognition
Online
Biology
Brain
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
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Central nervous system
Nervous system
Neurology
Neuron
Technology

