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Interesting, so the idea is that your short-term/working memory is indicative of your fluid intelligence? Then increasing your working memory increases your int
by emef 15y ago
Interesting, so the idea is that your short-term/working memory is indicative of your fluid intelligence? Then increasing your working memory increases your intelligence.
Seems reasonable enough.
- ajkessler 15y agoIt would definitely make sense (the more you can hold in memory at one time, the faster you could learn stuff), but I don't think they've actually concluded that's how it works. They are clearly related though. Another hypothesis is that working memory and fluid intelligence both utilize the same neural paths/network, so an increase in one benefits the other. The study itself is linked in my article above if you're interested in reading it. It's pretty interesting stuff.
- erikmork 15y agoActually it appears that increasing working memory alone doesn't increase intelligence (from the paper). But doing the 2 tasks together does seem to do the trick.