Do we really improve learning with brain games or just get better at playing games? See article from Scientific American.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doesn-t-make-you-smarter/
Do we really improve learning with brain games or just get better at playing games? See article from Scientific American.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doesn-t-make-you-smarter/
This article from the Scientific American, says research has yet to establish that online brain learning games such as at the Lumosity site, actually improve “fluid intelligence”. It says that there’s something else, called “Crystal Intelligence”, which CAN be improved through similar exercises…but that’s not what’s being advertised as doable in a key study, and in the promotion of such as Lumosity.
We are early on in developing online learning tools, and no doubt there will be a lot of changes and hopefully improvements in strategies for learning, and specifically for developing fluid intelligence.
But just as with the general state of online learning not being developed to what it “could be”, and what PSA thinks it “should be”… as yet…it’s too early to say we’ll be unable to get there with fluid intelligence too someday, if adaptive real time learning has a big enough data set to work with…and the smart algorithms to analyze it all.
It does appear that won’t be as “easy” as some now think or assume, going by David Z. Hambrick , author of the above article, and professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University..
We might also note that studies of the brain and intelligence have been fraught with confusion and error over the decades, and that psychology as a discipline that purports to understand the limits and operation of human intelligence, has not met that goal or come close to it, as yet.