Brain Workshop

Brain Workshop is an application designed to help you increase your memory skills.

It’s based on the dual n-back task which is said to enhance working memory and fluid intelligence. The method that the application uses involves remembering a sequence of spoken letters and displayed squares in a tic-tac-toe pattern. While the application plays the sounds and places the squares in random positions you have to match the corresponding images with the sounds.

It’s a rather confusing technique to exercise your memory but the application makes it easy to try it out. Brain Workshop displays a user-friendly interface which explains the entire process to you and if in auto mode you get overwhelmed, it’s possible to switch to manual and set the application to run at a pace that is soothing to you.

When you enter the workshop area, the app displays the keyboard shortcuts that you will be using. Choosing the game type, selecting the sounds, images and changing the mode is done with the use of the keyboard. The only time you use the mouse is when you try to make the associations during the test.

The devised test is fairly complex and you can see that the application tries to replicate it as as best as possible when you choose the game mode, o rather create it. Brain Workshop enables you to choose whether you want to use test parameters such as position, color, image, audio and arithmetic. Combining these and others factors generates variations of the test which take up names such as Triple N-Back, Dual N-back, Arithmetic N-Back and so on.

Brain Workshop keeps track of all your test sessions and generates a progress graph with indicators for maximum and average score.

In closing, if you’re looking to improve your memory or are simply looking for a new challenge you can certainly try Brain Workshop.