All Annotations of Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter[Preview]

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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• researchers did not find the upper-limit for improvement, suggesting that more training could yield even better mental performance gains.