Cognitive Fun -- Improve Your Fluid Intelligence

Some examples of a computer based brain-training method designed to improve working memory, which as has been reported recently by a Swiss-American team, also increases scores in "fluid intelligence", or general problem-solving ability.

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com Brain-training To Improve Memory Boosts Fluid Intelligence New findings show that multiple efforts designed to improve memory skills similarly improve fluid intelligence. (Credit: iStockphoto/Kiyoshi Takahase Segundo) Many psychologists believe general intelligence can be separated into "fluid" and "crystalline" components. Fluid intelligence—considered one of the most important factors in learning—applies to all problems while crystallized intelligence consists of skills useful for specific tasks. clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk 'Brain training' games do work, study finds An example of the sequence of squares that participants were shown in the tests clipped from cognitivefun.net cognitive fun! Eriksen flanker test Jaeggi/Buschkuehl dual n-back task Fast counting

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Learnit lists -- Language Training Gadget

Put it on your site or iGoogle page and use it as an assistant to learn lists of words of a foreign language.

clipped from www.learnitlists.com You will soon be able to learn a few words of your chosen language every day with minimal effort. We are beginning with Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese & Czech and will add more languages as they are requested. clipped from www.learnitlists.com Every day you will have 10 words to learn from a list of the 1000 most common English words. When you refresh the page, the words on your list will appear one by one. You will then be able to show or hide the meaning and swap between the two languages as you wish. clipped from www.learnitlists.com Learnit is currently available with the following language pairs: English/Czech English/Spanish English/German English/French English/Italian English/Portuguese.

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