Cognitive Training

Summary

Commercial brain-training reliably makes you better at the brain-training game and almost nothing else — the "far transfer" to general intelligence, memory, work, or school that the apps are sold on is, after two decades of large trials, close to a flat zero — so if your goal is a sharper, more resilient mind, your money and minutes are far better spent on the levers that actually move cognition: aerobic exercise, enough sleep, and effortfully learning a real new skill. ---