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The researchers behind this have pretty solid backgrounds: http://www.highiqpro.com/high-iq-pro/high-iq-pro-expertise

Here's a study on improving fluid intellience from Jaeggi and Buschkuehl (two of the people on their team): http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/04/25/0801268105.full...

Does anyone here have any experience actually using this?



http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ

For the skeptics, http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#criticism


Just read your post - very detailed and informative, thanks so much for sharing.

I highly recommend "Moonwalking With Einstein" by Joshua Foer about his experiences training alongside memory championship competitors. Also, working memory tends to be domain-specific and there's little transfer as you mention, see K. Anders Ericsson: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.ht...

Really enjoyed your post though, shooting you an email now...


You can experiment yourself. There is an open source implementation of the tool, written in Python: http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

At least it will definitely help you with short term memory and focus.


Is brain workshop open source alternative to High IQ Pro? Or are they unrelated?




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