Have you ever tried brain training apps like Lumosity, Cognifit, or BrainHQ? These programs promise to sharpen your cognitive skills, improve memory, and even boost your IQ. But is there real science behind these claims,… Read More »The Placebo Power Behind Mainstream Brain Training: How Your Belief Might Be Doing More Than the Games Themselves
Improve decision-making by mastering Expected Utility Theory (EUT) mindware. EUT provides a rational framework for making decisions under uncertainty by evaluating the potential outcomes and their associated probabilities and utilities. This structured approach helps counter cognitive biases like optimism, pessimism, and confirmation biases.
This post provides you with a tutorial for a 10 minute exercise using your Beta (15 Hz) binaural brainwave entrainment to help with focus and train your working memory – a key component of IQ.
This article has been written as a response to those of you who are interested in how best to train your working memory using the dual n-back – specifically using IQ Mindware working memory training software.
The Feeling of Free Energy In this article I’ll be introducing you to a metacognitive skill: the feeling of free energy. The key idea here is that we can enhance intelligence by using self-awareness and… Read More »The Feeling Of Free Energy – A Metacognitive Skill
Today I will look at: Working memory: the ability to temporarily hold information or rules in your ‘mental workspace’ in the face of distractions or concurrent tasks, needed for all purposeful, intelligent problem solving, decision-making,… Read More »Increase IQ With Interference Control Training
In this article we review the evidence for conditions under which n-back training N-Back for IQ: A Research Controversy The effectiveness of dual n-back training to improve IQ – also called fluid intelligence – the… Read More »N-Back Training for IQ – When It Works
While the average IQ of all college graduates in the country has barely changed (from 111 to 113), the average IQ of Ivy League college graduates has shot up from 120 to 142.
Tim Ferriss calls it the key to his success, and has written and podcasted extensively on it. In their annual Global Talent Trends 2019 report, LinkedIn singled it out as one of the top five… Read More »Attention Training: Filtering, Focusing, Noticing & Intending