Mind Games vs MindSpan Memory Booster

Exercise your brain! Mind Games is a great collection of games based in part on principles derived from cognitive tasks to help you practice different mental skills. This app includes many excellent free games. There are many trial games from Mind Games Pro that allow you to play 3 times. All games include your score history and a graph of your progress. Using some principles of standardized testing, your scores are also converted to a standardized scale so that you can see where you need work and excel. Not sure where to focus? Training Center does the work for you by picking the perfect mix of exercises to keep you engaged. Mind Games is intended to be brain challenging entertainment. No research has yet been conducted to determine if this app has cognitive benefits.

Watch. Remember. Answer. MindSpan trains the most important cognitive skill you have: working memory. A shape moves across the screen. You watch. Then you answer: what was it? What color? What pattern? Sounds simple. It isn't. HOW IT WORKS Each round, a geometric shape — triangle, star, polygon, moon — travels along a path. Your job: hold it in mind, then identify it from a set of options. As you improve, shapes move faster, paths grow more complex, and the distractors look more alike. CHALLENGE LEVELS Between the memory rounds, brain-teasers change the pace — mental math, logic and odd-one-out puzzles, lateral-thinking riddles, and number patterns. The question stays on screen; you reason it through. Memory and reasoning, woven together, so no two sessions feel the same. WHAT YOU'RE TRAINING Working memory is the brain's scratchpad — the ability to hold and manipulate information in real time. It underlies reading comprehension, mental arithmetic, decision-making, and sustained focus. Research consistently links working memory capacity to fluid intelligence and learning ability.