Joseph W. Kable

Joseph W. Kable is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Joseph Kable is the Baird Term Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Kable researches cognitive neuroscience. His work has suggested that an individual's approach to risk in decision making is correlated with the anatomical structure of the brain.[1][2][3] Another of Kable's projects concluded that "Brain Training" using Lumosity software “appears to have no benefits in healthy young adults above those of standard video games.”[4] Kable's team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activation in the participants while they were performing executive function tasks. The measurements revealed no difference in brain activity between the Lumosity and control groups.[4][5][6]

References
  1. Berger, Michele W. (5 April 2018). "Risk tolerance linked to amygdala and prefrontal cortex brain regions" (blog). Penn Today. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  2. Chen, Angus (5 April 2018). "Did You Buy Bitcoins? Your Brain's Anatomy Might Be to Blame". Scientific American. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. Jung et al., 2018.
  4. ""Brain Training" Doesn't Work?" (blog). Discover Magazine. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  5. Gallegos, Jenna (10 July 2017). "Brain-training games don't really train brains, a new study suggests". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  6. Kable et al., 2017.

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