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The Great Brain Experiment helps reveal how our working memory changes as we age

Results from The Great Brain Experiment, a smartphone app developed by White Bat Games, are continuing to help scientists shed light on how our brain works, and how it changes as we age. A new paper has been published which … Continue reading

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Great Brain Experiment reaches 100,000 players!

In recent months, the number of people who have played The Great Brain Experiment has reached 100,000! This is a huge amount for our little experiment, and is many more than we expected to participate, back when the project was … Continue reading

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Equation for Happiness Discovered with the help of The Great Brain Experiment

Another paper based on the experimental results of the White Bat Games developed Great Brain Experiment app has been released. Based on the ‘What Makes me Happy?’ game from the app, the paper describes an equation for happiness which can … Continue reading

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Great Brain Experiment is featured on the BBC’s Science In Action

The Great Brain Experiment is a cognitive science experiment disguised as a video game. While 60,000 people are playing games testing their visual acuity and memory, their performance is being sent to scientists at The Wellcome Trust and UCL where … Continue reading

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First Great Brain Experiment Scientific Papers Published

The White Bat Games developed title The Great Brain Experiment, has grown to become one of the largest cognitive science experiments ever conducted since the game was made available to the public in March 2013. Now, the first two scientific … Continue reading

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Fruit Frenzy now Free on Android!

If you’ve got an Android device, it’s your lucky day! Fruit Frenzy is now free to download and play. This was White Bat Games’ first title, and it’s an addictive action puzzle game where you must match together fruits to … Continue reading

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Fruit Frenzy updated!

We’ve just updated Fruit Frenzy on the iOS App Store! New to this version, you can compare your scores with other players using the leaderboards feature of Apple’s Game Center. You can also earn achievements in the game. This release … Continue reading

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The Great Brain Experiment was on BBC1 tonight

Tonight, The Great Brain Experiment was shown on BBC1′s daily magazine programme The One Show. It was played on the show by the one and only Terry Gilliam, one of my personal heroes! He played the game ‘How Much do … Continue reading

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Great Brain Experiment does a Reddit AMA!

The neuroscientists behind the curtain in Great Brain Experiment have done an AMA on Reddit. In case you’re not a regular, Reddit is a community site which hosts regular ‘Ask Me Anything’ sessions where interesting people answer interesting questions from … Continue reading

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Huge new update for Great Brain Experiment brings new games and more!

Today we’ve launched a new update to The Great Brain Experiment which adds four new games to the app, bringing the total to eight. Each of these games is a fun time-waster whilst also providing valuable data for neuroscience research … Continue reading

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