Neuroplasticity at work: video games to boost children’s brains

Original article by Hannah Francis
The Age – Page: 10 : 2-Sep-14

Alzheimer Australia will stage its "Technology and Dementia" forum in Melbourne on 2 September 2014. One of the key speakers is neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, head of the University of California, San Francisco’s Neuroscape Labs. He will argue that both young people and the elderly can benefit from playing certain types of video games that foster neuroplasticity, or the permanent strengthening of specific neural pathways. Neuroscape Labs is developing such software for children

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