Exercising Executive Function
Think you’re good at multitasking? Many people believe they get more done by doing several things at once, but usually they’re wrong. Every time you switch to a
different activity, you must give up a moment to shift your attention to the new task at hand. Overall, doing more than one thing slows you down.
While it’s a good idea to avoid multitasking in your day-to-day activities, some multitasking is simply unavoidable. So, we’ve designed Brain Shift to help you become better at efficiently switching between different activities. You should still avoid multitasking when possible, but we hope this exercise will make you better at it for those times when you must.
You can find Brain Shift here: http://games.lumosity.com/brain_shift.html
Let us know what you think!
Nov 16, 2008
[...] and developing various cognitive abilities, such as memory and attention. This new game is called Brain Shift, and reflects in some way our ability (or inability as I discovered of myself!) to multi-task. [...]
Nov 20, 2008
Maybe change the task during the game (e.g. from even to odd number) would make it more exiting.
Nov 20, 2008
I like this game. It’s quite challenging. I guess I could use some more of this kind of training.
Nov 22, 2008
if you are too fast with choosing your answer, the game does not register your answer. So it’s necessary to know that you will have to click again instead of waiting for then next choice – could affect scores as I’m assuming the game is timed.
Nice work in choosing an attention shift.
Nov 22, 2008
I notice that the longer the game goes, the easier the task gets… I’m not sure what the implications of that would be.
Dec 15, 2008
Another vote for changing questions from me. It would be nice if the questions would be any combination of even/odd and vowel/consonant instead of just even&vowel