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Published online 28 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.784
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Do games improve mental performance?
Memory workouts shown to sharpen abstract reasoning skills.
Can training one aspect of the mind, such as memory, improve overall mental sharpness? Researchers conducting a study on healthy college students suggest that such mental cross-training does work.
The notion that a few daily puzzles and quizzes sharpens the intellect and staves off cognitive decline is controversial (see Brain craze.
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I would tend to agree with the study findings based on my own experience with training a few children in the age group 12-16 and who suffer from ADD/ADHD ; and observed that memory training based on routinely or commonly available test kits or tools tend to improve performance in class and exams