Rather than spending hours on Candy Crush, have fun with hide and seek, a picky hen, or Emilie and the donuts. By playing the 8 games offered by the BRAIN’US application, you will help researchers understand the complicated mechanism of the brain.
“Developed by an Inserm team in collaboration with the start-up AdScientiam, this application will allow researchers to obtain valuable information on the functioning of our brain. By playing with BRAiN’US, you participate in a unique scientific experiment! », Explains the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) in a press release.
“We are studying the neurocognitive mechanisms that determine motivation, the psychological fuel without which active life is impossible, as well as their disorders. These can be associated with pathologies such as Parkinson’s disease, depression or even ‘burn syndrome. -out ‘”explain the researchers from the Brain and Marrow Institute (Paris) who developed this project under the direction of Jean Danizeau, head of the“ Motivation, brain, behavior ”team.
The more players there are, the more information researchers will have and will be able to break down the mental mechanisms that determine our behavior.
“You play and we collect precious data, integrated into a global analysis of the cognitive capacities of the population” explain the researchers.
The BRAIN’US app is downloadable for Android, iPhone, but you can also To play online from your computer.
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