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Brain Exercise
By Erin Wilkey Oh,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Fast-paced mental tasks are uninspiring.
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What’s It About?
Players choose from three activities and six difficulty levels. The Flash and Dynamic Visual Acuity tasks show a collection of shapes and ask players to remember how many of a certain type they see. In the first, shapes flash on and disappear, and in the second, the shapes fly across the screen. The higher levels speed up gameplay, requiring faster processing. The N'Back activity asks players to remember how many of a specific shape they see in a sequence. The higher levels require players to recall a longer sequence.
Is It Any Good?
BRAIN EXERCISE offers little to motivate players as they attempt these challenging mental tasks. Though players have a few options and can switch between the activities, the simplistic (and rather boring) design makes for an uninspiring experience. The app does save performance data to a list showing activity, score, date, and time, but without any interpretation or opportunity for data comparison, the numbers do little to encourage players.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPad
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning : memorization
- Release date: June 23, 2010
- Category: Education
- Publisher: LLC.Hasshokukou
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 3.1.3 or later
- Last updated: August 18, 2016
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