Insights into the Mind: Brain Games and Reading Activate Two Networks.

Researchers are using data from the game "Ebb and Flow" to train machine learning algorithms to mimic the human ability to switch attention between tasks. The findings shed new light on cognitive control and may expand the current understanding of disorders marked by cognitive control deficits, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The team developed a new way of modeling these data that imposes fewer assumptions on how the brain goes about doing a particular task. The research may also inform the understanding of diseases in which patients exhibit deficits in cognitive control.