NEW RESEARCH SAYS PLAYING BRAIN POWER GAMES EXERCISE DOES INCREASE BRAIN POWER

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Fluid Intelligence Is Increased with Brain Games and Transfers To Other Tasks

A new study has found that improving brain power by training working memory does work. "It may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, (as by playing brain power games) increasing the brainpower they had at birth. In the new study called Improving Fluid Intelligence with Training on Working Memory, researchers describe a method for improving this skill, along with experiments to prove it works". Many games to improve brain power includes games to improve working memory. Working memory is one of the most important components of brain power.



Some games to improve brain power work specifically on working memory. Working memory can be thought of as the ability to hold and use pieces of information in our heads for a short amount of time while working on a task or solving a problem like using a phone number or following a set of directions. In many games you have to remember information like positions of game pieces. However the amount of information we can hold is limited and the information itself is very unstable - a sudden distraction and the information is lost and you have to start again from scratch.



"The key,the intelligence researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory — the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory is closely related to fluid intelligence, according to background information in the article, and appears to rely on the same brain circuitry. So the researchers reasoned that improving it might lead to improvements in fluid intelligence".

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"They trained each in a complicated memory task, an elaborate variation on Concentration, the child’s card game. The game was set up so that as the participants succeeded, the tasks became harder, and as they failed, the tasks became easier. This assured a high level of difficulty, adjusted individually for each participant, but not so high as to destroy motivation to keep working".



"Martin Buschkuehl is a psychology researcher based at the University of Bern, Switzerland. It was assumed that fluid intelligence was immutable. Fluid intelligence measures how people adapt to new situations and solve problems they've never seen before. Fluid intelligence differs from crystallized intelligence, which takes into account skills and knowledge that have been acquired -- like vocabulary, grammar and math".

34 test subjects significantly better at answering IQ test questions after training them on a completely separate memory task

"It's not hard, for example, for students to improve their IQ scores by taking lots of IQ tests. Trouble is, learning how to take IQ tests doesn't improve the underlying smarts. The students just get better at taking tests. In practical terms, people can get better at taking tests, but in daily life, don’t have a blazingly quick new brain. And that's where Buschkuehl's research, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, claims to be groundbreaking. In a limited trial, he and his team were able to make 34 test subjects significantly better at answering IQ test questions after training them on a completely separate memory task".

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"Why did the training work? The authors suggest several aspects of the exercise relevant to solving new problems: ignoring irrelevant items, monitoring ongoing performance, managing two tasks simultaneously and connecting related items to one another in space and time".

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Besides conveying information the Internet has great interactivity. Brain power involves the ability to remember information and memorize facts among others things. Recall is central to the ability to think and brain function. Adding to the previous post about brain power games and improving working memory. A website about remembering information and improving the ability to remember says three fundamental principles are involved in the ability to remember, 1. imagination, 2. association and 3.location.

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The interactive features of the Internet provide a perfect way for you to use the Internet to work on your ability to remember and to strengthen your brain. I have previously pointed out a variety of web sites that have brain improvement games and various interactive features like games to help remembering. Here is a visual remembering game called Metro Match. You see a picture briefly then you have to remember where it's match is.

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Brain power involves the ability to remember information and memorize facts among others things. Recall is central to the ability to think and brain function. Adding to the previous post about brain power games and improving working memory. A website about remembering information and improving the ability to remember lists three fundamental principles, imagination, association and location.



"Imagination,If you think about the sort of things that you can remember easily, what is common about them? The answer is that they are interesting in some way. Your brain is very good at remembering things that it finds interesting.This leads to a memory principle. Make the things that you want to remember interesting. Things that move, explode, flash and so on are more memorable".





"Association. One idea naturally leads to another. When things are connected, then we can move from one image to another with ease. This can be used in remembering lists (connect each item to the previous), or can be used to connect ideas to a way of remembering them".




"Location. This principle is derived from the ancient prescription given by Cicero and others, that memory images should be placed in locations that are familiar to you. This in a sense automatically ASSOCIATES your images with something that you have already memorized perfectly (the locations)".

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Many games to improve brain power includes games to improve working memory. Working memory is one of the most important components of brain power. Some games to improve brain power work specifically on working memory. Working memory can be thought of as the ability to hold and use pieces of information in our heads for a short amount of time while working on a task or solving a problem like using a phone number or following a set of directions. In many games you have to remember information like positions of game pieces. However the amount of information we can hold is limited and the information itself is very unstable - a sudden distraction and the information is lost and you have to start again from scratch.





For an example of working memory brain power. Imagine you ask a policeman how to get to city hall. The policeman says "Go three blocks until you see a stop sign and make a left turn onto Green Street. Then look for the Calories R US supermarket about three blocks down Green Street.You go past 2 gas stations until you see the large white building next to the drive in restaurant.The type of memory needed to hold information in your mind while working on a problem or task is called working memory.



Here is a brainpower game to test your working memory. The game is called BumperCows.

Test Your Working Memory With Bumper Cows



"We use working memory for understanding language, solving problems, memorizing information, developing new ideas, in fact pretty much everything that is not automatic. So something completely automated like walking does not use working memory, but learning something new like a dance move would.



If cognitive processing ended at attention, you would conduct your life strictly from information received at the present instant, without any internal state of the mind or abstract thought. The words of this sentence would dart ephemerally in and out of your brain, becoming wholly devoid of perceptible meaning...



Instead of this mercifully unlikely scenario, however, your attention grants the words access to your brain’s working memory, which briefly holds and evaluates them for the duration of their relevance (i.e. until you have finished the sentence or idea).



Working memory, though operating over a timescale of mere seconds, is central to human thought processes. It allows you to temporarily hold and evaluate information in your mind, whether from the environment, stored memories, or internal state, thus allowing you to process the world within your personal context. Thus, working memory not only allows you to remember a phone number and find your way home, but is also central to language, reasoning, and most of the mental functions associated with human intelligence".




The above graphic about brain power working memory using remembering a telephone number is from

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Many games to improve brain power includes games to improve working memory. Working memory is one of the most important components of brain power. Some games to improve brain power work specifically on working memory. Working memory can be thought of as the ability to hold and use pieces of information in our heads for a short amount of time while working on a task or solving a problem like using a phone number or following a set of directions. In many games you have to remember information like positions of game pieces. However the amount of information we can hold is limited and the information itself is very unstable - a sudden distraction and the information is lost and you have to start again from scratch.





For an example of working memory brain power. Imagine you ask a policeman how to get to city hall. The policeman says "Go three blocks until you see a stop sign and make a left turn onto Green Street. Then look for the Calories R US supermarket about three blocks down Green Street.You go past 2 gas stations until you see the large white building next to the drive in restaurant.The type of memory needed to hold information in your mind while working on a problem or task is called working memory.

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Here is a brainpower game to test your working memory. The game is called BumperCows.

Test Your Working Memory With Bumper Cows




"We use working memory for understanding language, solving problems, memorizing information, developing new ideas, in fact pretty much everything that is not automatic. So something completely automated like walking does not use working memory, but learning something new like a dance move would.



If cognitive processing ended at attention, you would conduct your life strictly from information received at the present instant, without any internal state of the mind or abstract thought. The words of this sentence would dart ephemerally in and out of your brain, becoming wholly devoid of perceptible meaning...



Instead of this mercifully unlikely scenario, however, your attention grants the words access to your brain’s working memory, which briefly holds and evaluates them for the duration of their relevance (i.e. until you have finished the sentence or idea).



Working memory, though operating over a timescale of mere seconds, is central to human thought processes. It allows you to temporarily hold and evaluate information in your mind, whether from the environment, stored memories, or internal state, thus allowing you to process the world within your personal context. Thus, working memory not only allows you to remember a phone number and find your way home, but is also central to language, reasoning, and most of the mental functions associated with human intelligence".




The above graphic about brain power working memory using remembering a telephone number is from

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