Linking Thinking

Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower

Care­fully struc­tured train­ing in work­ing mem­ory based on a vari­a­tion of the Con­cen­tra­tion card game leads to improve­ments in fluid intel­li­gence–the kind of men­tal abil­ity that lets us solve new prob­lems with­out hav­ing any pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence, and that had been widely believed to be an imutable trait.

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