Brain Workshop Changelog

What's new in Brain Workshop 4.8

Sep 30, 2010
  • This release adds many new features and challenging play modes including Quad N-Back, Dual Audio N-Back, Crab N-Back, and multi-stimulus modes. Multiple user profiles are now supported.

New in Brain Workshop 4.4 (Jan 18, 2009)

  • This release fixes a few bugs and adds some new configuration options.
  • Novice Mode was renamed to Jaeggi Mode.
  • The data and res directories can now be specified on the command line using the --datadir and --resdir parameters.

New in Brain Workshop 4.3 (Nov 16, 2008)

  • Variable n-back levels can be used with any game mode.
  • Sounds for the auditory n-back task can be selected by pressing S.
  • New Morse Code sounds can be used with any n-back mode.

New in Brain Workshop 4.22 (Nov 9, 2008)

  • This release provides a new title screen.
  • Launching in Novice Mode will no longer cause a crash.
  • The date axis of the progress graph will no longer skip days, and data points are now indicated with a dot.
  • The num pad should now work properly with Arithmetic N-Back modes.
  • Difficulty of Dual Variable N-Back has been increased slightly.

New in Brain Workshop 4.2 (Nov 2, 2008)

  • This release adds single n-back modes for younger children and those who may find dual n-back too challenging.
  • It also adds a new challenge mode, Dual Variable N-Back.
  • The configuration file is no longer included in the distribution, so your old settings won't get overwritten.
  • OpenAL is now the default sound driver on Linux. (Try installing package python-openal if you're having sound problems.)
  • The pyglet library no longer needs to be installed separately.

New in Brain Workshop 4.11 (Oct 30, 2008)

  • This release fixes the level decrease threshold in Novice mode.
  • A configuration option is now available to use the pre-4.1 flat squares.
  • There are two changes to Novice Mode to eliminate the last of the differences compared to the original study protocol: exactly 6 position and 6 audio matches are now generated each session; and the score for the session is set as the lowest of the two individual modality scores (visual and audio).

New in Brain Workshop 4.1 (Oct 26, 2008)

  • The squares in Dual and Triple N-Back have a new look.
  • Individual scores for each input category (position, sound, etc.) are shown in the graph screen.
  • New piano sounds are available in the configuration file to test your tonal memory.

New in Brain Workshop 4.04 (Oct 20, 2008)

  • Added the division operation to the Arithmetic N-Back modes. Use the period key '.' to insert a decimal point. Each of the operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide) can be turned off or on in any combination in the config file.
  • Fixed a bug where if you had just advanced to a new level and quit BW, the next time you restarted you would be back at the previous level.
  • Added config option to play music in Manual mode.