Does brain training make you smart | Caroline Williams

You can boost your brainpower, says Caroline Williams, but it’s not as simple as just giving your head a work-out

Can we really train our brains? The hope that maybe we can is based on the idea of “brain plasticity”: that no matter how old you are, and how set in your ways, your brain is constantly changing to adapt to new experiences.

Brain plasticity is based on a decade’s worth of hard science, which is how it came to spawn a billion-dollar brain training industry. But there’s a problem. When scientists look at whether brain training games actually make people smarter, the answer is very clear: no.

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