Nintendo DSi Makes You Smarter?
Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a Japanese neurologist joined forces with Nintendo to create the popular Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi Brain Age™ and Brain Training™ series of games. These brain boosting games include anagrams, quick fire math quizzes and music recitals and memory tests all marketed for the aging adults worried about their memory or brain health. But can these games actually make you any smarter?
According to a recent London CNN report, Dr. Lauren Stewart, a cognitive neuroscientist at Goldsmiths, University of London, it depends on what a person thinks smart is all about.
“Learning of any kind does forge new neuronal connections,” says Stewart. “Evidence seems to support the ‘use it or lose it’ mantra with respect to staving off neuronal degeneration in old age.”
Released in January of 2008, Mega Brain Boost™ allows a gamer to improve their brainpower with three full games and one cartridge. Any science or biology teacher can tell you that the brain produces five wavelengths: alpha, beta, delta, gamma and theta waves. And according to the Nintendo website and Brain Boost Gamma Wave™ and the Brain Boost Beta Wave™ are individual games designed to develop the ‘right brain’ by increasing your recognition of shapes, images and spatial patterns and intuition and illustrations. The Mega Brain Boost adds a third game which includes Total Amount of Money, Match the Kanji Characters, Colors, Dots and Find the Goal.
In the Nintendo DS’s Left Brain Right Brain 2™ a person could call never mental skills to become truly ambidextrous while training your hands with all-new speed based mini games.
One of the more ‘busier’ games for Nintendo DS would probably be the Brain Buster Puzzle Pack with hundreds of puzzles ranging from the latest Japanese craze Kakuro to the hugely popular Sudoku. One of the best parts about all of these games is that there are hidden hints one could uncover by removing such things as spaceships, asteroids and monsters, which are put there as distractions while you're playing your puzzle. Other games in this five pack include Light Up, Nurikabe, and Slitherlink.
And one of the older Nintendo DS games is Big Brain Academy™, which released in June of 2006, and challenges a player to several mind-bending activities. The gamer can test their mental activity in a five category quiz which includes thinking, computation, memorization, identification and analysis.
According the Nintendo website, the Brain Age™ for the new Nintendo DSi Console is a “math-focused edition of the popular Brain Age series, players can enjoy a mix of new and familiar exercises, including Change Maker, Triangle Math, Sum Totaled, and Multi Tasker. A new Themes mode challenges you in drawing, photography, and voice acting and lets you share your creativity with your friends and family. And if you need a break from things, the always-enjoyable Virus Buster makes its return. Prepare for another round of training your brain in minutes a day!” This is the latest brain boosting game for the newest Nintendo console the Nintendo DSi
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