Brain training on Trial 
Spent your hard-earned cash on games that promise to protect your brain? Still forgetting why you went into that room? Then come and put brain training on trial. Be our prosecution, defence and jury as we examine the claims that brain training games protect your brain. Hear the evidence for and against their effectiveness and cross-examine our expert witness. As you question the evidence, what will your verdict be: brain training, guilty or not guilty? With Dr Alan Gow, Lecturer in Psychology at Heriot-Watt University.
At this year’s Fringe, YAS member Alan Gow will be one of a number of academics from Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Napier, and QMU performing as part of Edinburgh Beltane’s Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas. Alan’s contribution is a show called “Brain Training on Trial” on August 18th at 3.40pm.
Here’s a short trailer to let you know what it’s about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g2puKGaE-E&feature=youtu.be7
Follow updates on the show’s development via Twitter @AlanJohnGow and buy tickets here: https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/brain-training-on-trial
Please share the trailer or pass on to students, colleagues, etc.
Also see below for another series of interesting events at the fringe this year:
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We’re delighted to invite you to our unique media series where Professor Chris Carter, Chair in Strategy & Organisation at the University of Edinburgh Business School, will interview some of the most prominent and influential leaders in media.
These are free events, however access is strictly limited to ticket holders.
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Lessons from the financial crisis with Iain Martin, journalist at the Sunday Telegraph
Thursday 14 August – 7pm
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The role of financial journalism in accountability, with Ray Perman, author and financial journalist
Monday 18 August – 7pm
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Changes in the media with Peter Jay, former British Ambassador to Washington
Wednesday 20 August – 4pm
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Rebuilding the trust of the public with Gavin Esler, Chancellor of the University of Kent
Sunday 17 August – 7pm
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Press Regulation in the post-Leveson era with Chris Mullin, former Labour Minister and campaigning journalist
Tuesday 19 August – 7pm
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The role of political journalism for a democratic society, with Polly Toynbee, Columnist at the Guardian
Saturday 23 August – 7pm
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