11.28.2005
When you say jump, we say 'how high'
>
At Cognitive Labs, we strive to exceed your expectations for a service that allows you to get a quick snapshot of your thinking at the moment, and moreover, lets you keep track over time. It's a meter, or stopwatch for assessing your thinking.
Puzzles are designed to challenge you. Instead of zigging, you have to zag. Some of the picture puzzles (beta) are rather difficult - particularly the mosaics, where the background is multi colored. If you can do these quickly, then you are at the top of the cognitive game. You have to hit scramble and wait.
The slices are randomly assorted. To sort them, you have to click with your mouse on a box and then move it around. You will also have to sort all of ther pieces to make the one piece fit. So, you are challenged in mulitple domains of memory and perception plus logic.
Plus, you might learn something. Take, for example, the Ishi puzzle. Ishi lived on the banks of Deer Creek somewhat to the North and East of Redding, California in the foothills, if you will, of Mt. Lassen. He was reputed, by the late Alfred Kroeber (for whom Kroeber Hall at UCB is named) to be the "last wild man in the contiguous United States" and for Kroeber, gave vast amounts of source material to his studies of California Native Americans. California, after all, had the highest population of indigenous peoples of any state in North America. Unlike other states in the West, California rapidly modernized and the native peoples and native Spanish speakers known as Californios for the most part were treated unfairly, to put it mildly.
Anyway, try the puzzle. The core of these puzzles is written in dynamic HTML which takes much customization to work with the plethora of browsers out there. We are gradually making them compatible for as many browsers and platforms as possible, including mozilla/firefox/opera, etc. So, please be patient if you have find your configuration is not working optimally.
Puzzles are designed to challenge you. Instead of zigging, you have to zag. Some of the picture puzzles (beta) are rather difficult - particularly the mosaics, where the background is multi colored. If you can do these quickly, then you are at the top of the cognitive game. You have to hit scramble and wait.
The slices are randomly assorted. To sort them, you have to click with your mouse on a box and then move it around. You will also have to sort all of ther pieces to make the one piece fit. So, you are challenged in mulitple domains of memory and perception plus logic.
Plus, you might learn something. Take, for example, the Ishi puzzle. Ishi lived on the banks of Deer Creek somewhat to the North and East of Redding, California in the foothills, if you will, of Mt. Lassen. He was reputed, by the late Alfred Kroeber (for whom Kroeber Hall at UCB is named) to be the "last wild man in the contiguous United States" and for Kroeber, gave vast amounts of source material to his studies of California Native Americans. California, after all, had the highest population of indigenous peoples of any state in North America. Unlike other states in the West, California rapidly modernized and the native peoples and native Spanish speakers known as Californios for the most part were treated unfairly, to put it mildly.
Anyway, try the puzzle. The core of these puzzles is written in dynamic HTML which takes much customization to work with the plethora of browsers out there. We are gradually making them compatible for as many browsers and platforms as possible, including mozilla/firefox/opera, etc. So, please be patient if you have find your configuration is not working optimally.
