The Scientific Basis
The science behind High IQ Pro
“Increasing intelligence is possible after all …with more training leading to greater gains …across the spectrum of abilities.”
…Robert Sternberg, Professor of Psychology
Who are the scientists who discovered the effects of the brain training exercise?
The IQ increasing brain training exercise was developed over many years by cognitive psychologists at the University of Bern in Switzerland and the University of Michigan in the USA. The team, led by Dr. Susanne Jaeggi, published their results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008. The article can be found by clicking the icon.
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Jaeggi and colleagues demonstrated a dramatic effect of the brain training software on fluid intelligence – the ability to reason and problem solve in novel situations. All official IQ tests measure fluid intelligence either in part or exclusively.
By how much did fluid intelligence improve?
In the Jaeggi study, fluid intelligence increased by over 40%, as measured by a time-limited version of Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices. There was a training effect on IQ level for people of all starting intelligence levels. This graph shows the IQ gains over number of daily sessions.
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Why is this ground breaking scientific news?
In over 40 years of scientific studies, this software is the only known brain training exercise that has been scientifically demonstrated to improve intelligence. And it works regardless of your starting intelligence level.
Professor Robert Sternberg. the world’s leading authority on intelligence, has said of this brain training exercise:
Almost 40 years ago, Jensen claimed that, when all is said and done, there is not much one can do to raise people’s IQs. Jaeggi and her colleagues have made an important contribution… by showing that intelligence is trainable to a significant and meaningful degree.
Professor Sternberg’s published article on the High IQ Pro® training task can be found by clicking on the article icon:
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Professor Sternberg’s website can be found here.
Why does this brain training exercise work?
The brain training software works by exercising your ‘working memory’ -a short term memory system used to hold in mind a few items of information for a brief time and process this information in order to reason and solve problems while ignoring distracting information. There are different working memory stores for spatial and verbal information. We use working memory when we reason, plan and problem solve. This graph shows typical increases in working memory capacity (how many items of information you can hold in mind) as a result training with High IQ Pro®.
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Many scientists now believe that working memory and fluid intelligence are closely related, and that both share the same brain circuitry – the hippocampus and part of the prefrontal cortex of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
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Essentially by training and improving your working memory capacity, you increase the amount of information you can hold in mind and process in a goal focused way, and this increases your ability to reason and problem solve and reason – in other words, it improves your fluid intelligence and IQ.
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