Brain researchers for the first time claim to have found a method for improving the general problem-solving ability scientists call fluid intelligence, otherwise known as “smarts.” Fluid intelligence measures how people adapt to new situations and solve problems they’ve never seen before. It differs from crystallized intelligence, which takes into account skills and knowledge that have been acquired — like vocabulary, grammar and math.
Martin Buschkuehl, a psychology researcher based at the University of Bern, Switzerland, has just completed work appearing recently in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that has broken new ground towards enhancing people’s cognitive function.
Training with Buschkuehl and his team’s software for 25 minutes a day for 19 days, the test group averaged an increase of more than 40 percent in their ability to answer questions of the IQ exams they were administered. (A control group that was not trained showed only a very slight performance increase.)
Interestingly, revenue from “brain-fitness software” reached $225 million in 2007, according to SharpBrains, a market-research firm.
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Hey it’s great research for people like me. You wud not believe i am such a dull person. It’s wud solve my problems hope so. Thanks to Martin Buschkuehl.
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