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Working Memory and Fluid Intelligence

Working memory is an idea developed by cognitive scientists to describe how people are able to hold information relevant to a particular task in their mind, while having to simultaneously process information relating to other tasks and contend with additional distracting information. Many fundamental cognitive abilities including; reading, reasoning, and problem solving all require input from working memory in order to function.

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Dual N-Back

The Dual N-back exercise is a cognitive training exercise that was deigned to stretch and develop working memory capacity (WMC).  The central idea is that you are presented with two simultaneous series to keep track of. Usually these are one series of letters spoken out loud, and another of spatial locations on a 3 by 3 grid. Your task is to identify when either the current letter or current location being presented is identical to one that was already presented a certain number of items ago

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Testing Intelligence

For more than a century the IQ test has been the crowning jewel in the quest to measure an individual’s intelligence, but recent research suggests that such tests should not be held in such high esteem. To investigate the value of the IQ test, researchers carried out a project on behalf of the Daily Telegraph and New Scientist to ask more than 100,000 participants to complete 12 assessments that tested their abilities in; planning, reasoning, memory and attention.

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