Dr. Moore Reveals Results and the Details Behind her TEDx Talk 

TED talks are incredible opportunities for people from fields around the world to reveal what they have learned through their studies, life experiences, and so on. Dr. Amy Lawson Moore took the stage at an independently organized TEDx event in West Monroe, Louisiana, to reveal the results of her research on brain training.  

For Brain Awareness Week, we wanted to sit down and learn more details behind some of her statements during her TED talk. We paired her answers with sections of her talk to help get more background on what else Dr. Amy Lawson Moore wanted to say. 

Watch what she has to say in this unique look at “Lessons Learned from Training 101,000 Brains,” published near the beginning of this year.  

Dr. Moore Reveals Results and the Details Behind her TEDx Talk

A Teacher, a Cognitive Psychologist and a Mom 

In this video, we learn that not only did Dr. Moore want to help her son, she felt devastated that she let her son feel inferior to the other students in his class. She says, “As a teacher, I thought I had cornered the market as a mom. And Evan was an advanced reader, so I didn’t really notice anything was going on.” Dr. Moore talks about how before she was a cognitive psychologist, she was a teacher and thought she could handle any learning challenge her children would have, “but by the time my son was in the fourth grade and couldn’t spell his own name, I knew there was a problem. I realized I hadn’t been on top of this, and it’s impacting my child’s self-esteem.” She says the next day, she marched into a LearningRx and got her son signed up.  

Why Confidence in the Number One Result 

Another point Dr. Moore goes into is the result of confidence. In her talk, she mentions that on top of results, confidence is still the number one result for people who go through a LearningRx program. In her interview, she says why she thinks that is; 

“The beautiful thing about human delivered cognitive training… is that it creates all fours sources of what we call self-efficacy development. And self-efficacy is your belief in your ability to complete something,” 

From Dr. Moore’s knowledge, brain training provides the foundation for building cognitive skills and helps people grow their self-efficacy, a more significant predictor of ability than actual ability. This knowledge makes brain training an even more fantastic resource for students who come into a center with low self-esteem from school. Brain training takes students through a program that will give them the skills to think and process and know that they can achieve their goals.  

Details Behind Brain Training 

Brain training, or cognitive training, is a general term for repeated mental task engagement that targets improving cognitive skills like memory, attention, and visualization. There are ‘brain games’ everywhere, but brain training is more than a game.  

To harness the brain’s ability to change through experience –a phenomenon called neuroplasticity– brain training needs to be intense, complex, targeted, repeated, and arguably delivered by a human. The team at LearningRx has worked with more than 101,000 children and adults in over 6 million brain training sessions. 

Since 2015, hundreds of research studies have been published on brain training programs, and Dr. Moore’s name graces over a dozen of them. The peer-reviewed research on the LearningRx brain training methods demonstrates the complexity, universality, and transfer effects of human-delivered brain training for ADHD, learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, and age-related cognitive decline. 

Research you can read here: https://www.gibsonresearchinstitute.org/publications/ 

Who Should Watch Dr. Moore’s TED talk? 

Dr. Moore ends her TEDx talk with a story about a research participant with a severe traumatic brain injury who recovered his life and career after brain training. Dr. Moore says, “It’s a story of hope with the message that we are not stuck with the cognitive cards we’ve been dealt!” In our debrief interview, Dr. Moore recommends that anyone who has tried other learning alternatives for their child look into brain training because “…we don’t know for sure if it will work, but we have some evidence that it might…so why not at least try.” 

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