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Anonymous Mon Dec 9 18:23:06 2019 No.11213486 [Reply] [Original]

Will Lumosity improve my cognitive abilities?

Anonymous Mon Dec 9 20:01:15 2019 No.11213699

>>11213486
no. latest evidence says no far transfer. studies from 5 years before that says there was all got overturned. same with playing rts to improve attention/task switching speed etc
no improvement happens outside learning to do it in the specific context of the game

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 20:24:21 2019 No.11213765 >>11213486 >Will Lumosity improve my cognitive abilities? Why don't you try it and find out?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 20:30:34 2019 No.11213782 >>11213699 >no improvement happens outside learning to do it in the specific context of the game Well you may say anecdotal, but the math game definitely improved my mental arithmetic in other contexts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 9 20:32:38 2019 No.11213790 File: 100 KB, 474x711, a0b.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >the brain is a muscle

Anonymous Tue Dec 10 12:23:31 2019 No.11215137

No, not literally. What is your goal, OP? If you want to be better academically you gotta do academic stuff/achievements, not play phone games. If you want to be good at speaking/reading, you need to read and speak. If you want to be better at math, do math.

Will you get objectively more "intelligent" by doing the above? No. Will you get better at what you're doing and maybe other tasks? Yes. Will luminosity do anything at all for you? Not one bit.

Anonymous Tue Dec 10 12:39:54 2019 No.11215164
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>>11213790
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2811%2901267-X

The posterior hippocampi of average-IQ adult subjects who passed the difficult Knowledge exam for London taxicab drivers showed significant enlargement as opposed to before they began studying for it. The posterior hippocampus is associated with memory and spatial reasoning, both of which are strongly correlated with IQ. Similar effects not observed in the control group or in those who failed. Pic related.

This was actually a repeat experiment with a larger sample size (n=88), i.e. the results are predictable and reproducible. Pilot study in the citations. All subjects were fully-grown adults age 30+, so "normal" brain development had already run its course.

Thus we have hard, reproducible, undeniable evidence that the brain is capable of PHYSICALLY restructuring itself in response to focused training, much like a muscle.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 10 12:45:18 2019 No.11215177 >>11213486 good joke

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 10 12:47:32 2019 No.11215180 File: 494 KB, 660x648, 1542149073105.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11215164 look at the only dude in the room taking all this shit seriously look at him

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 10 12:58:43 2019 No.11215203 >>11215180 >being this new

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