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Y OEL PSTEIN

UR BRAINS ARE ADAPTED TO OPERATE
VERY QUICKLY, AND, IN SOME CASES,
PROCESS INFORMATION MUCH FASTER THAN
A SUPER-COMPUTER COULD. OR INSTANCE,
YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED TO NAVIGATING YOUR
BODY THROUGH OBSTACLES IN A ROOM
WHILE BALANCING A FOOD TRAY, TALKING,
MONITORING SOUNDS, AND PROCESSING
VISUAL INPUT. O COMPUTER ON EARTH
COULD TO KEEP UP WITH YOUR BRAIN
AT THESE TASKS. UT, WITH MORE
MUNDANE DECISIONS SUCH AS, "S THIS
BIRD THE SAME COLOR AS THE LAST
BIRD?" OUR BRAIN SLOWS DOWN.


S YOU USE THIS PROGRAM, YOU'LL
SEE YOUR BRAIN TAKING LONGER AND
LONGER TO VERIFY A TRUE OR FALSE
CONDITION. OU'LL SEE YOUR BRAIN
DOES ONE THING AT A TIME. IRST IT
VERIFIES ONE THING, THEN ANOTHER,
FINALLY A DECISION IS MADE.

UNNY THING: WHILE IT TAKES US A
FEW SECONDS ON PAPER TO FIGURE OUR
BILLS, COMPUTERS DO IT IN A BLINK OF
AN EYE. HOSE SAME COMPUTERS AREN'T
COMPLEX ENOUGH OR FAST ENOUGH TO
REGULATE YOUR 300 MUSCLES AND GET YOU
TO WALK TWO STEPS WITHOUT FALLING --
LET ALONE NAVIGATE AN OBSTACLE COURSE
-- OR DANCE.


'LL LET OEL PSTEIN EXPLAIN THE
GAME TO YOU. E SEEMS TO HAVE
COVERED EVERYTHING.

AKE IT AWAY, OEL...


IS A SET OF 12 GAMES
DESIGNED TO TEST VISUAL RECOGNITION
AND REACTION TIME, USING ANIMAL
SHAPES AND COLORS. HERE ARE THREE
SKILL LEVELS WITH FOUR SEPARATE
GAMES. HE BASIC IDEA IS TO MEMORIZE
THE FIRST SET OF SHAPES AND/OR COLORS
AND DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT A SECOND
SET MATCHES THE ONE THAT YOU
MEMORIZED.


HE COMPUTER WILL KEEP TRACK OF
YOUR PERFORMANCE AND SAVE THE BEST
SCORES. N ANY SKILL LEVEL YOU HAVE
4 OPTIONS:

1. ATCH HAPE, OLOR ONSTANT
HE COMPUTER WILL PRESENT RANDOM
SHAPES, ALL THE SAME COLOR, AND YOU
MUST DECIDE IF THE TARGET SHAPE
MATCHES A SHAPE FROM THE MEMORY SET.

2. ATCH HAPE, OLOR ANDOM.
HIS IS THE SAME AS ABOVE, ONLY THE
COLORS WILL BE RANDOM. EMEMBER, YOU
MUST MATCH THE SHAPES, THE COLOR IS
IRRELEVANT. O THE DIFFERENT COLORS
TAKE UP EXTRA PROCESSING TIME IN YOUR
BRAIN? ET'S SEE!

3. ATCH OLOR, ONSTANT HAPE.
HE COMPUTER WILL PRESENT THE SAME
SHAPES IN RANDOM COLORS. OU MUST
DECIDE IF THE TARGET COLOR MATCHES A
COLOR PRESENTED IN THE MEMORY SET.

4. ATCH OLOR, ANDOM HAPE.
HIS IS THE SAME AS ABOVE, ONLY THE
SHAPES WILL BE RANDOM. EMEMBER, YOU
MUST MATCH THE COLORS, THE SHAPES ARE
IRRELEVANT. HEORETICALLY, SCORES ON
THE GAMES USING RANDOM SHAPES OR
COLORS SHOULD TAKE LONGER TO RESPOND
TO. HIS IS BECAUSE YOUR BRAIN
AUTOMATICALLY PROCESSES THE DIFFERENT
SHAPES AND COLORS AND THIS INTERFERES
WITH YOUR ABILITY TO RESPOND.

IMILARLY, YOUR RESPONSE SHOULD
BE SLOWER ON HIGHER SKILL LEVELS
BECAUSE, IN LEVEL 3, YOU WILL BE
PRESENTED 3 SHAPES AND MUST REMEMBER
THEM ALL IN ORDER TO ASSESS WHETHER OR
NOT THE TARGET MATCHES THE MEMORY SET.
EEPING 3 ITEMS IN MEMORY TAKES MORE
EFFORT AND TIME THAN HOLDING ONLY ONE
OR TWO ITEMS IN MEMORY. FTER YOU
HAVE CHOSEN A GAME, THE SCREEN CLEARS
AND THE MEMORY SET WILL APPEAR.
FTER YOU HAVE MEMORIZED THE SHAPE(S)
OR COLOR(S) PRESS . OU MAY
QUIT A ROUND AT THIS POINT BY
PRESSING F7. NCE YOU HAVE PRESSED
, A FIXATION POINT WILL APPEAR
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN. TARE
AT THIS POINT AND IN A COUPLE OF
SECONDS THE TARGET WILL APPEAR.

O MATTER WHAT SIZE THE MEMORY
SET, THE TARGET WILL ONLY BE ONE
ITEM. RESS '_' (LOCATED IN THE
UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE KEYBOARD) IF
THE TARGET'S COLOR/SHAPE (DEPENDING
ON WHICH GAME) MATCHES A COLOR/SHAPE
FROM THE MEMORY SET. RESS
(LOCATED IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF
THE KEYBOARD) IF THE TARGET DOES NOT
MATCH THE COLOR/SHAPE IN THE MEMORY
SET. HE COMPUTER WILL THEN DISPLAY
THE MEMORY SET, AND TELL YOU IF YOU
RESPONDED CORRECTLY. F YOU WERE
RIGHT, THE COMPUTER WILL TELL YOU HOW
FAST YOU ANSWERED. HE FASTER THE
BETTER.


F YOU ANSWERED INCORRECTLY, YOU
WON'T RECEIVE A SCORE. ROUND IS TEN
PRESENTATIONS LONG. F YOU MISS ONE
OR LESS DURING A ROUND AND YOUR
AVERAGE SCORE FOR THE ROUND IS LESS
THAN THE LOWEST AVERAGE FOR THAT
GAME, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO ENTER YOUR
INITIALS FOR THE RECORDS.


HOPE YOU FIND THIS TEST AS
INTERESTING AS DID. VEN THOUGH
YOUR BRAIN IS VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO
YOU, IT'S OFTEN HARD -- OR EXPENSIVE
-- TO GET A GLIMPSE OF IT WORKING.


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