PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Outlast, Eaves, Karolinska Institutet
6 Nov 2016
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Research studies indicate that some types of brain training can make you smarter. High fluid intelligence typically leads to academic achievement and career success. Training does not appear to extend the capacity of working memory, but rather, tune out distracting information. As training progresses, the brain regions taxed by working memory become less active (more efficient in their functioning) These same areas are more engaged when the brain is at rest the program leaves the brain better primed to perform a wide array of tasks. In the test participants are asked to keep track of an image, number, or letter that appeared n positions back in a series. Although subjects in these competitions perform astonishing feats of recall, these tricks do not actually make them more intelligent. Scores of untrained individuals remained fairly constant. All 4 groups attained higher scores on later intelligence test.
