{"id":87101,"date":"2019-01-27T22:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/cambridge-university-releases-a-brain-training-app-that-improves-concentration-akin-to-ritalin"},"modified":"2019-01-27T22:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:44:22","slug":"cambridge-university-releases-a-brain-training-app-that-improves-concentration-akin-to-ritalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/cambridge-university-releases-a-brain-training-app-that-improves-concentration-akin-to-ritalin","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge University releases a brain-training app that improves concentration akin to Ritalin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cambridge-university-releases-a-brain-training-app-that-improves-concentration-akin-to-ritalin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Decoder, developed in collaboration with a games developer, gets users to assume the role of an intelligence officer tasked with breaking up global criminal gangs (users are able to select a character and their backstory).<\/p>\n<p>To meet the objective, users have to identify different combinations of number strings in missions littered with distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Winning each mission means users unlock letters of the next criminal location (the higher the score, the more letters revealed).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-01-22\/cambridge-uni-develops-app-with-ritalin-like-effects\/10737268?pfmredir=sm\">https:\/\/mobile.abc.net.au\/news\/2019&#45;01&#45;22\/cambridge-...fmredir=sm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decoder, developed in collaboration with a games developer, gets users to assume the role of an intelligence officer tasked with breaking up global criminal gangs (users are able to select a character and their backstory). To meet the objective, users have to identify different combinations of number strings in missions littered with distraction. Winning each [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}