Study Looks at Brain Flow, and How People Achieve It

Karen Michele Nikos — November 22, 2021 - 12:30pm

You are playing such an intense video game and are focused so intently on getting to the next level that you don’t know what is going on around you. You have no sense of time passing. You feel great. You are “in the zone.” You are experiencing flow.

You are running a marathon, and you are so focused on the finish line that you barely experience any pain or tiredness until you are done. You are experiencing flow.

Startup Cognivive Plans Games as Digital Therapies

Andy Fell — November 06, 2017 - 11:27am

A startup company founded by a University of California, Davis, neuroscientist is developing video games that act as “digital medicine” to treat children with cognitive impairments, as well as people with cognitive limitations resulting from brain injury or aging. The company, Cognivive, is built on research by co-founder Tony Simon, professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at �°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis, and others showing that playing action video games can enhance players’ spatiotemporal cognitive abilities.

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Study Looks at Brain Flow, and How People Achieve It

Startup Cognivive Plans Games as Digital Therapies