CogniFit - Gem Breaker 3D: Brain Game

Brain game "Gem Breaker 3D": What is it?

Gem Breaker 3Dis a brain training game To advance in the game, we will have to aim the ball by moving the lower platform so that it breaks through the walls when it hits them. However, as the level of complexity of this mind training game increases, the cognitive demands will increase.

The difficulty of this brain game will automatically adjust depending on the user's training. Gem Breaker 3D is a scientific resource designed to continuously measure cognitive performance and automatically adjusts difficulty, optimizing brain training. The brain game Gem Breaker 3D was designed for children, adults, and seniors who want to train and stimulate essential cognitive skills.

How can the brain game "Gem Breaker 3D" improve your cognitive abilities?

When training the brain with brain games like Gem Breaker 3D, you stimulate specific neural patterns. Consistently repeating and training this pattern can help create new synapses and neural circuits able to reorganize and recover weak or damaged cognitive functions.

This game is indicated for anyone looking to challenge and improve cognitive performance.

• Spatial Perception: In this mind game, we will have to correctly manage the distances and spaces in the three dimensions in order to solve each level of difficulty, making use of our spatial perception. By playing Gem Breaker 3D at the appropriate level, it is possible to improve this cognitive capacity and help us to correctly interpret the positions of the stimuli around us. This cognitive skill is important in reading as the order and position of each letter is critical for extracting the meaning of the text.

• Reaction time: Often we will need to be quick to keep the ball from falling, which depends directly on how long it takes us to react. By practicing this mind game we can train our reaction time. This is a crucial cognitive skills when we play sports, because most of them require our reflexes and the time it takes to give a response.

• Estimation: You need to be able to figure out how the ball is going to bounce to keep it from falling, and getting it to hit where you want it to hit. Practicing this activity correctly can help strengthen our ability to estimate, which would be very useful for some sports. For example, passing the ball to a partner in a precise and agile manner.

• Divided Attention: During Gem Breaker 3D there can be situations in which we have to attend simultaneously to more than one object (for example, when an improvement appears or when we play with several balls at the same time). In these cases, we will need our divided attention, and by playing this mind game, we would be stimulating it. A good divided attention allows us to perform more than one activity simultaneously. We use this cognitive ability in class, for example, when taking notes while listening to the teacher or looking at the blackboard.

• Focused Attention: In Gem Breaker 3D we must be able to detect the stimuli that we have to break and focus on each one of them. For this we will need our focused attention. Playing this game helps improve your focused attention. We use this cognitive ability on a daily basis for example when we need to focus on a problem that we have to solve.

• Hand-eye Coordination: It is essential that we move the mouse correctly so that the platform moves to where we want it to go. This will require our hand-eye coordination, which can be stimulated by practicing Gem Breaker 3D. Having this cognitive ability in good shape helps you perform activities that require precision with your hands, for example writing.

• Planning: In this mind game we can organize ourselves and apply strategies, such as deciding which stimuli to start with, or which improvements to make to complete the level. In addition, the further you go in Gem Breaker 3D, the more useful this cognitive capacity will be for you. This mind game helps improve your planning cognitive skills. Improving this cognitive capacity is important for sequencing and prioritizing our future activities efficiently.

• Inhibition: While trying to pick up a bonus, we realize the ball is going to drop in an off screen area, in this situation we will have to inhibit the behavior of obtaining the bonus to avoid losing the ball. This helps strenghten our inhibition capacity. Strengthening our inhibition is essential to stop automatic behaviors or those we have already initiated. A good inhibition would allow us, for example, to avoid distractions during a class.

• Shifting: The trajectory of the ball sometimes changes radically when it hits a stimulus, so we have to be flexible and adapt the cursor position to the unexpected change. In addition, at higher levels, the demands on our cognitive shifting will be greater. Being mentally flexible can be beneficial to adapt to change or new situations in our environment. Cognitive shifting allows us to change previous ideas and thoughts by incorporating new learning.

What happens if you don't train your cognitive skills?

The brain is designed to reserve resources, which causes it to eliminate the connections that it doesn't use often. This means that if you don't regularly use a certain cognitive skill, the brain will stop sending it the resources that it needs, and it will become weaker and weaker. This makes us less efficient when using the said function, causing us to be less efficient in daily activities.