A gym for your brain
Nine areas of thinking
Different games ask different things of you. Together they spread your daily workout across nine kinds of thinking, each leaning on different areas of the brain. Pick an area to learn what it involves and which game keeps it active. Any three of the nine games are free to play every day.
- Language Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas
- Numbers Parietal lobe (intraparietal sulcus)
- Logic Prefrontal cortex
- Spatial reasoning Parietal and occipital lobes
- Memory Hippocampus and medial temporal lobe
- Knowledge Temporal lobe semantic networks
- Attention Frontoparietal attention network
- Multilingual recognition Language network across both hemispheres
- Planning Prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia
Designed with care
BrainGamer is designed by a neurosurgeon who believes staying curious and mentally active is part of a good life. These pages explain which areas of the brain each kind of thinking involves, in plain language. They are for interest and encouragement only. The games are for fun and mental exercise, not a treatment, a test, or a measure of your health.