Nine years ago, I was introduced to the large-scale MindCrowd research project through the University of Arizona (my alma mater). There are a total of ten universities partnering on this effort to understand and ameliorate dementing diseases in the human brain.

One of MindCrowd’s goals is to better understand the average human brain (to enable researchers to pinpoint deleterious changes earlier). To achieve this they are looking for a million participants, as of now they are just over halfway.

You can contribute to this effort, well, effortlessly. All you need to do is answer some demographic questions and play a couple simple games on their website. One of the games tests your memory (see above), while another measures your response time (see below).

So, please, head on over to https://mindcrowd.org and give it a go! The brain you help could be your own…