Improve your Intelligence with a Simple Game
January 8th, 2009
It seems that the generally accepted belief, and that to which I subscribe, is that intelligence is immutable. There exists, at this point, no exercise or training program that improve your IQ.
A paper, however, by Susanne M. Jaeggi, Martin Buschkuehl, John Jonides, and Walter J. Perrig, titled “Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory” suggests that this might not be the case.
In their research, they were able to demonstrate that those who trained with a simple dual n-back game succeeded in substantially improving their gF score on intelligence tests.
If you’d like to try, the game can be found here.
If you’d rather downoad a copy of the game, an offline version is available here.
Hello, D’Arcy.
You’ve linked to a couple of good implementations of the dual n-back method. Some may prefer a robust, fully-supported and full-featured version: Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro. It is not free, but very affordable.
Martin
http://www.mindsparke.com
Thank you, Martin, for the link. I’ll be sure to check it out.
Cheers,
D’Arcy