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Slightly off-topic, but the pushback against brain training owes a huge debt of thanks to Randy Engle (and others), for loudly questioning the methods and ratio
by closed 9y ago
Slightly off-topic, but the pushback against brain training owes a huge debt of thanks to Randy Engle (and others), for loudly questioning the methods and rational of the early "become smarter by the magic of dual n-back" research.
Here's an article where he compares it to cold fusion: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-yourself-smarter.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/can-you-make-your...
- michaelcampbell 9y agoWas the claim not "doing n-back helps working memory"? Hardly "become smarter". Whether or not it works is worthy of discussion, but straw-man-ing a hyperbolic claim that wasn't made doesn't add to the discussion.
- closed 9y agoThat was half the claim. The full claim was that it improves fluid intelligence by improving working memory. The title of Jaeggi 2008 is "Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory". http://www.pnas.org/content/105/19/6829.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/105/19/6829.abstract