Increase Your Intelligence When You Increase Your Memory?
May 6, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Has the ol’ brain been feeling rather weak, lately? You may want to read up on how researchers now think we can improve our fluid intelligence.
Researchers conducted a study to determine whether or not increasing working memory would help increase fluid intelligence, because the two are so closely related.
The results?
Yes.
According to Susanne M. Jaeggi, a University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow in psychology and one of the paper’s co-authors, the “results show you can increase your intelligence with appropriate training” (Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower).
However, no one knows yet how long your intelligence will remain “increased” after you stop engaging in the activities that increase your working memory, so, I suggest keeping your kid’s deck of Concentration cards handy. 
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Increased and stable memory is one factor that impinges positively on memory. I believe I’ve identified about twenty poignant factors by now (and counting). A pity our educational institutions seem to be bothered less with raising their students’ intelligence but rather with feeding them knowledge they are soon to forget anyhow.