Train your brain-one skill at a time

摘要

Brain training might keep you mentally young, but only if you exercise one skill at a time. Video games that claim to boost your smarts are popular but a study in 2010 of 11,000 people found that typical brain-training games improved cognitive ability only by the same amount as surfing the internet. However, the volunteers in that study trained using games that targeted several skills at once, so Joaquin Anguera at the University of California in San Francisco and his colleagues wondered whether focusing on just one might give better results.