Brain Training Products Work - Just Like Placebos

Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 10:40 in Psychology & Sociology

If you see commercials for brain-training products, the companies all tout laboratory studies and scientific backing for their products in how they can improve your brainpower. Most intervention studies like these have a critical flaw, notes a new paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science: They do not account for the placebo effect. read more

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