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Can You Make Yourself Smarter?, The New York Times. "Harold Hawkins, a cognitive psychologist at the Office of Naval Research who oversees most of the U.S. military’s studies in the area, expressed a common view. For him, the question now is not whether cognitive training works but how strongly and how best to achieve it. “Until about four or five years ago, we believed that fluid intelligence is immutable in adulthood,” Hawkins told me. “No one believed that training could possibly achieve dramatic improvements in this very fundamental cognitive ability. Then Jaeggi’s work came along."
The brain training program "Lumosity began in 2007 and is now by far the biggest of the services, with more than 20 million subscribers." Learn more at the company site
