# Cognitive training meets social networking - Brain Odyssey **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 1, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cognitive-training-meets-social-networking-brain-odyssey/555694 "2010-10-01T06:41:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cognitive-training-meets-social-networking-brain-odyssey/555694/1 "2010-10-01T06:41:28Z")
[A better brains collective](http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=a-better-brains-collective-2010-09-28&sc=CAT_MB_20100929) Here’s a blurb from the article > [@](#): > > Now Posit wants to broaden its brain-boosting still further by creating a social networking site where anyone, whether in Karachi or Miami, can collaborate on cognitive training exercises. Players work together by exploring cities around the world to solve historical mysteries. After completion of brain exercises, they get additional pieces of a puzzle. The site, called [Brain Odyssey](http://www.brainodysseygame.com/), which launches Wednesday, allows the player to indulge for free, though as with some other similar sites, virtual goods can be purchased to further progress through the game. “We’ve done this because those 50 and over have doubled their use of social networking,” says Steven Aldrich, the company’s chief executive. The article is dated Sept 28th, so the Wednesday in question would have been the 29th I suppose. I was able to sign up when I tried yesterday. I don’t really have much patience for these sorts of things. I wish I did, but it does look interesting. There will be a commercial aspect to it as noted in the quote above regarding “virtual goods”, but hopefully it won’t be the sort of situation where you have to buy stuff to participate and have fun. If anyone decides to try it, please report back. Enjoy.