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There was a google tech talk a while back which I've managed to track down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPrL0cmJRs
http://www.positscience.com/why-brainhq/brain-training-your-way
His basic theme was that intelligence was made up of the combination of very tiny functional skills that could be trained and improved separately. Anyway, he claims to have demonstrated improvement. Maybe. The method appeals to me and makes some sense. Say that improving your ability to distinguish phonemes would reduce cognitive load for other tasks farther up the conceptual processing pipeline. Should help, just a matter of how much.
There are surprising amounts of cognitive load in visual processing, too. Getting your vision done and organizing your living and working spaces can help a surprising amount.