LaserMind Journal
Understand the science. Practise with purpose.
Explainers and practical guides on memory, attention, learning and the brain. Each article separates what research supports from what it has not established, and links to exercises you can try.
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Beginner's guide
What Is Brain Training? A Science-Based Beginner's Guide
Brain training is repeated practice of mental tasks. The main kinds, what practice reliably improves, and what research has not shown.
Memory basics
What Is Working Memory? How It Works and Why It Matters
Working memory explained: how it holds and uses information, how much it can hold, how it is measured, and what training research shows.
Study guide
How to Improve Memory for Studying: Evidence-Based Strategies
Test yourself, space your study and use a memory palace for ordered lists: what research supports, what it doesn't, and a sample weekly routine.
Explore by topic
Brain Training
What brain training is, what practice reliably improves, and where the evidence stops — gains on the practised task are kept apart from claims about intelligence or everyday life.
2 articles
Memory & Learning
How memory works, why we forget, and which study techniques research supports, such as retrieval practice and spacing.
4 articles
Attention & Focus
What attention is, why focus slips, and evidence-graded ways to protect concentrated work.
2 articles
Executive Functions
Inhibition, working memory and mental flexibility: what these skills are, how they are measured, and what training them can and cannot do.
1 article
Neuroscience Explained
How the brain learns and changes, explained carefully — without using “neuroplasticity” to justify every claim.
1 article
Brain Health & Habits
Sleep, exercise and stress, and what research shows about their links with attention, memory and learning. Science education, not medical advice.
1 article
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Practical guide
How to Measure Your Progress in Brain Training
Scores rise with retesting alone. How to read a trend over noise, and how LaserMind separates trained tasks, untrained tasks and real life.
Beginner's guide
What Is Brain Training? A Science-Based Beginner's Guide
Brain training is repeated practice of mental tasks. The main kinds, what practice reliably improves, and what research has not shown.
Thinking basics
What Are Executive Functions? A Beginner's Guide
Inhibition, working memory and flexibility explained: how executive functions are measured with Stroop, go/no-go and task switching, and whether training helps.
Memory basics
What Is Working Memory? How It Works and Why It Matters
Working memory explained: how it holds and uses information, how much it can hold, how it is measured, and what training research shows.
Memory basics
Working Memory vs Short-Term Memory: Key Differences
Short-term memory holds information; working memory holds and uses it. How the two differ, how each is measured, and what backward span tests.
Study guide
How to Improve Memory for Studying: Evidence-Based Strategies
Test yourself, space your study and use a memory palace for ordered lists: what research supports, what it doesn't, and a sample weekly routine.
Sleep and learning
Sleep and Memory: Why Rest Matters for Learning
What research shows about sleep and memory: sleep helps you keep what you learn, and sleep loss hurts attention and new learning. Science, not medical advice.
How memory works
Why Do We Forget Things? The Science of Forgetting
Why memories fade: the forgetting curve, interference, missing cues and shallow encoding, plus how testing yourself and spacing study slow forgetting.
Practical guide
How to Focus Better: Evidence-Based Strategies
Practical ways to focus better, checked against research: single-tasking, notifications, breaks, sleep and mindfulness, and when to see a professional.
Explainer
What Is Attention? Types and How They Work
What attention is: selective, sustained and divided attention, task switching and the three attention networks, and what training can and cannot change.
Explainer
What Is Neuroplasticity? How the Brain Changes With Experience
Neuroplasticity explained: how experience changes the brain, what landmark studies found, and why it does not mean any exercise improves general ability.