Brain training doesn't boost brain power, work suggests

[steven johnson]

First they tell me playing Mozart won't make my baby smarter and now they tell me computer games won't make me smarter.

Brain training games do not improve overall brain power, a scientific study launched by the BBC suggests.

The largest ever investigation followed 11,430 people over six weeks to see what effect, if any, playing brain training computer games would have.

While players got progressively better at the games, the gains were not transferable, Nature journal reports.

Players gained nothing in terms of general reasoning, memory, planning or visuospatial abilities, experts found.


Brain training doesn't boost brain power, work suggests