Experament: DS BrainTraining and alcohol and Redbull

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Aspie_Chav
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04 Mar 2008, 3:33 am

Yesterday I did an experiment with DS Brain Training and some alcohol and Redbull.
My assumptions were that drinking alcohol makes you more NT, so it also make you more NT in various brain performance test the redbull conteracts the effect of the alchohol by making you more alert .

Aspies in this forum did show a concern that their speed at work wasn’t up to those of an NTs, who seem just to whip through their work with hardly any thought at all.

In my test last night on the color word quick test, manage to get a brain age of 50s where I usually achieve 60s at best. I also did the basic maths test in 47 seconds where my previous best was 70 seconds. Generally I did best all scores.

Want other geeks to participate in the same test.



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04 Mar 2008, 5:25 am

I think it is executive function. I am way slower at work than NTs, especially when doing very routine tasks. I seem to not have a big attention span.

Then again I wouldnt want to be good at boring stuff anyway.


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04 Mar 2008, 10:12 am

I don't have Brain Training. I have Big Brain Academy. I have more false confidence with drinking and playing and more incredulity when I get things wrong. Typical of drinking and DSing. I'm slower at Identification and Analysis but the same speed at Compute, Memory and Thinking when drinking.

I plateaued at A- and haven't been able to top myself.



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04 Mar 2008, 11:09 am

There seems both possible in autism, though fewer people with above average reaction time and more with lower reaction time compared to average NT reaction time. I'm pretty sure there are studies about this, because I wouldn't know without having read them.

I know that there was a free, private online test that included three tests and that was directed at autistic people. It had comparable data from official studies with NTs and autistic people too and of course the scores of all participants of the online tests.

I tried to find the site, but I failed. I'll try again.