No gain from brain training

摘要

The largest trial to date of'brain-training' computer games suggests that people who use the software to boost their mental skills are likely to be disappointed.rnThe study, a collaboration between British researchers and the BBC Lab UK website, recruited viewers of the BBC science programme Bang Goes the Theory to practise a series of online tasks for a minimum of ten minutes a day, three times a week, for six weeks. In one group, the tasks focused on reasoning, planning and problem-solving abilities-skills correlated with general intelligence.