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Gimpness comments on Brain Training to maximize returns - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Goobahman 11 October 2013 01:23AM

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Comment author: Gimpness 11 October 2013 10:40:25PM 3 points [-]

I am under the impression that a lot of those Brain Training games you may find won't work as claimed i.e. those (Luminosity etc) that claim working memory improvement --> intelligence improvement/cognitive improvement.

Here is a relevant meta-analysis of such (haven't been able to get an original copy have just read through this article

Tis a shame cause I watched the same program and got excited but decided to investigate before I paid up for it.

Comment author: gwern 11 October 2013 11:24:13PM 4 points [-]