Caution: Brain in Training

After reading "My 4-Week Quest: Be Smarter" in Wired 15.01, I succumbed to the siren call of My Brain Trainer. It is strangely addictive. I don't quite know my brain age, and one of the things I'm getting smarter about is knowing that my spatial visual memory is pretty bad.

I am doing well training myself to remember long sequences of letters, and then recognizing whether this is a match in the next sequence of letters. But doing that same thing with black and white shapes - very hard.

I'm hoping to become a Brain Master some day. Don't ask.