CAN mental training actually improve intelligence? It had been assumed that intelligence is largely immutable, and no video game or puzzle has convincingly proved capable of altering it. Now a task has been discovered that boosts “fluid intelligence” – the ability to reason and solve general problems. What’s more, the harder you train, the greater the gain.
Fluid intelligence correlates with professional and educational success and appears to be largely genetic. Specific efforts at cognitive training have shown that while you can improve on a particular task, such as retaining and recalling numbers, the gains do not transfer to…
