14 research pages
- AI research
AI Cognitive Debt and ChatGPT — What the MIT Study Says
A cautious explanation of the 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint on LLM-assisted writing, EEG, recall, ownership, and cognitive debt.
- Concept
Cognitive Offloading and AI
How people have always offloaded thinking to external tools — and what changes when the tool can reason with us.
- Category
Brain Training Claims, Evidence, and Why Senwitt Is Different
What brain-training companies often promised, what regulators and scientists challenged, and the narrower promise Senwitt makes.
- Principle
Use It or Lose It — Thinking Skills in the AI Era
The simple principle behind daily practice: skills you keep using stay in reach; skills you stop using get fewer reps.
- AI literacy
AI Overreliance and Thinking Skills
What overreliance on AI looks like in writing, code, reading, and math — and what healthy AI use can preserve.
- Category
Brain Exercise vs Brain Training
The category distinction, the promise distinction, the legal distinction, and the product distinction.
- AI research
Your Brain on ChatGPT — Kosmyna 2025 Deep Dive
The 2025 Kosmyna paper deep dive: EEG, ownership, and quotation results, sample-size caveats, and the Stanković 2026 critique we cite alongside it.
- Pillar
Scope of Evidence — What Senwitt Does and Does Not Claim
The pillar page that defines exactly what Senwitt claims, what it does not claim, and why the narrower-promise structure is the durable one.
- Cognitive aging
Mental Sharpness With Age — What the Research Says
The cognitive-aging literature in plain language: what changes, what holds, and why Senwitt avoids the cognitive-decline marketing framing.
- Offloading
GPS and Spatial Memory — UCL and UCSB Research
One of the cleanest single demonstrations of cognitive offloading in the literature. The mechanism is direct and the practical advice is clear.
- Concept
Transactive Memory in the AI Era
Wegner named the pattern in 1985 for couples and work teams. The same logic now applies to your relationship with AI tools.
- AI + code
Programmer Cognitive Skills and AI Coding Assistants
Anthropic's 2026 study measured a 17% drop in skill formation for AI-assisted developers learning new libraries — consistent with the dev-skill-atrophy line.
- Memory
The Google Effect and Digital Amnesia
What Sparrow, Liu, and Wegner documented in 2011, what the 2024 meta-analysis confirmed, and what to take from it in the AI era.
- AI literacy
AI Brain Fry — What the BCG, HBR, and Pew Data Show
A careful read of the March 2026 news-cycle phrase: a real pattern and coined term describing recoverable load — not a clinical condition.
Not brain training. Brain exercise.
Senwitt is a daily brain exercise app, not a brain training program. We do not claim to improve general cognition, prevent cognitive decline, or treat any condition. Independent scientific consensus — the 2014 Stanford Center on Longevity / Max Planck Institute statement signed by 70 neuroscientists, the 2016 Simons et al. review in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and the FTC's 2016 settlement with Lumos Labs — has concluded that “brain training” claims are not supported by the evidence. Senwitt is built on a different premise: skills you actively practice get sharper; skills you stop practicing fade.
