Are you tracking your sleep with a Zeo or at least a cellphone accelerometer?
How are you benchmarking your mental state? Memory may take a serious hit, are you using something like Anki which records statistics on forgetting/memory performance? (Working memory and executive function are also issues, so I would suggest dual n-back.)
At the moment I’m tracking sleep with a pen and paper, just started with an Android app. Zeo was totally unknown to me. Thankyou, will investigate this.
My plan is to go by the metric that matters to me, university work. I get enough data there to notice something going wrong. Not the same detail as proper Anki-style benchmarking, however there is an extra variable in my case (resulting in high variance on the day/week scale), that would spoil such results.
I’m a big fan of the Zeo, I should mention. You may be better off with one of the cellphone apps (I think some are even free, while the cellphone-based Zeo is like $100, plus something like $20-40 in headband replacement a year depending on how fast you use them up).
(Working memory and executive function are also issues, so I would suggest dual n-back.)
What do you think are the best ways to measure mental performance? (The problem with dual n-back is that I’m constantly improving and I would like to have a somewhat constant benchmark.) Do you think tests that measure visual reaction time or the time you need to solve arithmetic problems are worthwhile?
If you haven’t plateaued on DNB yet, you could always try a suite of things like Gbrainy or Lumosity. (But needless to say, improving on DNB simply means that data is harder to interpret—if your scores drop, even after you think you’ve adapted, that’s significant data!)
Are you tracking your sleep with a Zeo or at least a cellphone accelerometer?
How are you benchmarking your mental state? Memory may take a serious hit, are you using something like Anki which records statistics on forgetting/memory performance? (Working memory and executive function are also issues, so I would suggest dual n-back.)
At the moment I’m tracking sleep with a pen and paper, just started with an Android app. Zeo was totally unknown to me. Thankyou, will investigate this.
My plan is to go by the metric that matters to me, university work. I get enough data there to notice something going wrong. Not the same detail as proper Anki-style benchmarking, however there is an extra variable in my case (resulting in high variance on the day/week scale), that would spoil such results.
I’m a big fan of the Zeo, I should mention. You may be better off with one of the cellphone apps (I think some are even free, while the cellphone-based Zeo is like $100, plus something like $20-40 in headband replacement a year depending on how fast you use them up).
What do you think are the best ways to measure mental performance? (The problem with dual n-back is that I’m constantly improving and I would like to have a somewhat constant benchmark.) Do you think tests that measure visual reaction time or the time you need to solve arithmetic problems are worthwhile?
If you haven’t plateaued on DNB yet, you could always try a suite of things like Gbrainy or Lumosity. (But needless to say, improving on DNB simply means that data is harder to interpret—if your scores drop, even after you think you’ve adapted, that’s significant data!)