Can Everyone Be An Einstein?
Time to buff up your brain, to send your synapses to the spa. How about a couple of hours of sudoku? No? Well, fire up your Nintendo DS and pump up your neurons with Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training games — “Keep your brain sharp and in shape.”
“These games definitely work because you get better at playing them,” says Earl Miller, professor of neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “The big question is: do these skills generalise to normal everyday thoughts? That hasn’t been studied.”
But don’t despair: Susanne Jaeggi, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, may be able to help. She has devised a brain-training game that actually works. It’s a strange, complex game involving sequences of squares on a computer screen, and it definitely improves “fluid intelligence” — the part of your mind that deals directly with the raw newness of experience or, as defined by Jaeggi, “the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge”.
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Matt @ Permanent Fitness on November 19th, 2008 1:31 am
I read a study reacently, which proved that browsing the web increases brain activity and imporves reasoning skills. Improvement was particularly significant in older people.
So guys, from now on don’t feel as if you’re waisting time – you’re actually training your brain :)
cassy on November 19th, 2008 2:08 am
Im a wide reader person and by reading I can learn many things and also help me to improve my learning skills.
Jaclyn Wells on November 19th, 2008 11:36 am
These games i would think would be very helpful to all people especially children in learning. like myself for example, i learn the best when i am shown something or i see examples of something…therefore the game with all the sequences of squares would probably work the best for me. something that has diagrams of some sort are my best bet, so games like these i think would be awesome for those that learn like i do by viewing examples and/or items.
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