Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You...
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Saved by 7 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-04-29
- Zafar01 on 2008-06-19 - Tags no_tag
- Frufrufour1 on 2008-05-03 - Tags smarter
- Sdt333 on 2008-04-30 - Tags quickd
- Johnwprior on 2008-04-29 - Tags Mind
- Brendan on 2008-04-29 - Tags intelligence , iq , psychology
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the finding suggests that with about 25 minutes of rigorous mental training a day, healthy adults could improve their mental capacities.
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subjects trained on a complex version of the so-called "n-back task" -- a difficult visual/auditory memory test -- improved their scores on a set of IQ questions drawn from a German intelligence measure called the Bochumer Matrizen-Test.
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They do not plan to commercialize the software, but with mental gyms like Vibrant Brains in San
Francisco springing up, and brain training software companies like Posit Science drawing big-name investors,
you can bet you'll be seeing the n-back task on sale sooner rather than later.
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researchers did not find the upper-limit for improvement, suggesting that more training could yield even better mental performance gains.
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