brightico comments on N-back news: Jaeggi 2011, or, is there a psychologist/statistician in the house? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 17 June 2011 07:05:39AM 5 points [-]

We played it when I was in high school, but we called it Egyptian Ratscrew.

(Egyptian Ratscrew, or "ERS" in the company of adults, is a card game that, depending on variant, can include 1-back, 2-back, or 3-back, among other simultaneous pattern recognition tasks. With a nonstandard deck of cards with more features, e.g. Set cards, it would be trivial to adjust it to multi-feature n-back.)

Comment author: brightico 22 August 2012 10:38:11AM 0 points [-]

Sorry if replying to an old post is frowned upon but, I have been doing N-Back for a while now and have seen drastic improvements in my learning ability (problem solving?) at school. I'm in my late 30's and was born with learning disabilities (most people are). I know that at least 2 back has helped me.

The reason I'm replying to this post is that I did searches on youtube for Egyptian Ratscrew and the explanations of how to play the game didn't sound or look anything like Dual N Back.

N-Back involves recalling sounds and the position of a visual stimuli. Egyptian Ratscrew does not.