Intelligence methods raiselearning and remembering abilitiesWhat is "Intelligence"? First of all, let me explain what I mean when I say the word "intelligence". To be clear, I'm not just talking about increasing the volume of facts or bits of knowledge you can accumulate, or what is referred to as crystallized intelligence-this isn't fluency or memorization training-it's almost the opposite, actually. I'm talking about increasing your fluid intelligence, or your capacity to learn new information, retain it, then use that new knowledge as a foundation to solve the next problem, or learn the next new skill, and so on.Now, while working memory is not synonymous with intelligence, working memory correlates with intelligence to a large degree. In order to generate successfully intelligent output, a good working memory is pretty important. So to make the most of your intelligence, improving your working memory will help this significantly-like using the very best and latest parts to help a machine to perform at its peak.Thus, Anyone can increase their cognitive ability, no matter what your starting point is. The effect can be gained by training on tasks that don't resemble the test questions. How Can I Put This Research To Practical Use For My Own Benefit?There is a reason why the dual n-back task was so successful at increasing cognitive ability. It involves dividing your attention between competing stimuli, multimodal in fashion (one visual, one auditory). It requires you to focus on specific details while ignoring irrelevant information, which helps to improve your working memory over time, gradually increasing your ability to multi-task the information effectively. In addition, the stimulus was constantly switched, so there was never a "training to the test questions" phenomenon-it was always different. If you've never taken the dual n-back test, let me tell you this: I'm not surprised there was so much cognitive gain from practicing this activity.