The Cambridge Brain Challenge
Our Current Challenge
You can take our standard set of 4 tests and see how you do across all the key areas.
- Grammatical Reasoning (Reasoning)
- Spatial Search (Planning)
- Paired Associates (Memory)
- Odd One Out (Reasoning)
Welcome to the Cambridge Brain Challenge!
Take the challenge and see how your cognitive performance stacks up against your friends, as well as the thousands of people who have used Cambridge Brain Sciences to test their memory, reasoning, concentration and planning abilities. And then challenge others to see if they can beat you!
This year, some of our tests were featured on the BBC1 popular science programme ‘Bang Goes The Theory’ and have since been tried by over 57,000 members of the public as part of the world’s largest study of brain training ‘Brain Test Britain’. The results of the study will be published in the journal Nature on 21st April 2010 and will be broadcast in a BBC1 special edition of Bang Goes The Theory at 9pm on 22nd April, 2010.
The Cambridge Brain Challenge features three tests that were used to benchmark changes in cognitive function before and after training (grammatical reasoning, spatial search and paired associates) and a fourth test (odd one out) that was very similar to one of the trained tasks during the trial. If you take the Cambridge Brain Challenge, you will do each of the four test once and a composite score will be calculated for comparison with your friends!
Additional details
The Cambridge Brain Challenge features just four of the test from the Cambridge Brain Sciences website.
Grammatical Reasoning: This test is a modern variant on Alan Baddeley’s 3 minute grammatical reasoning test. It measures how well your brain can reason about the relationships among different objects based on deductions from grammatical statements.
Spatial Search: This test assesses your ability to retain and manipulate information in spatial working memory.
Paired Associates: In this task you have to remember which objects are hidden in different boxes. Psychologists call the skills required for this task ‘paired-associate-learning’, as you are required to learn to pair two items in memory.
Odd One Out: The Odd One Out task was developed by Dr Adam Hampshire as a modern variant on classical tests of fluid intelligence, such as Raven's Progressive Matrices and the Cattell's Culture Fair Intelligence Test.
Additional Cambridge Brain Challenges will follow over the coming weeks. Enjoy the challenge!
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