IQ Training | Get Smarter with MindSparke
IQ Training | Research Tested, Real World Results
"[My] full scale IQ has been verified as 151, an intelligence increase of at least 21 points." - Lloyd's IQ training resultsIQ Training | Working Memory Training
Overall intelligence is made up of crystallized intelligence, our knowledge of facts, and fluid intelligence, our capacity for abstract reasoning. MindSparke's IQ training improves fluid intelligence by initiating the growth of new neurons in the dentate gyrus, leading to improvements in short term memory, focus, and executive processing.
MindSparke Brain Fitness Pro employs the one IQ training protocol proven by independent scientific studies to increase fluid intelligence. Brain Fitness Pro improves scores on all standardized tests and exams including IQ tests.
IQ Training | The Research
Scientists from the University of Michigan and the University of Bern discovered in 2008 that intensive working memory training would increase intelligence. The researchers published a study1 demonstrating that IQ training with the "progressive dual n-back" working memory exercise could significantly increase IQ. The study demonstrated a fluid IQ increase for all participants of more than 40% in comparison to a control group who did not train. (The researchers calculated the fluid IQ increase using questions from a widely used IQ test2.)IQ Training | Long Term Benefits
The team followed this up with a long term study showing that the IQ training benefits continued even after the participants had stopped training. The training also made the subjects more focused and less inclined to be distracted. A team from the Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umea University, Sweden, published similar research showing IQ increases lasting for at least eighteen months."These new studies demonstrate that the more training people have on the dual n-back task, the greater the improvement in fluid intelligence," said Dr. Jonides, lead researcher on the study. "It's actually a dose-response effect. And we also demonstrate that the much simpler single n-back training using spatial cues has the same positive effect."
IQ Training | The Science
With landmark researchin 1998, Dr. Fred Gage demonstrated that the adult brain grows new brain cells throughout life. IQ training with progressive working memory training promotes new neural growth in the area of the brain dedicated to focus, memory, and executive processing; functions critical to fluid intelligence, short term memory, and academic abilityIQ Training | The Three Conditions for Targeted Brain Change
IQ training that promotes new neural growth calls for three key ingredients: Attention, Challenge, and Reward.
Attention | When we give our attention to a particular task or problem, the nucleus basalis secretes a substance called acetylcholine, stimulating the hippocampus to encode and store the information being processed. The more we pay attention, the more we remember. |
Challenge | When we challende the brain we encourage it to divert resources to the brain areas in use. |
Reward | Succeeding at a challenging task gives pleasure, stimulating the release of dopamine (the "happy" chemical). Acetylcholine and Dopamine together stimulate new neural growth (neurogenesis) and brain plasticity. |
IQ training increases our ability to pay close attention and increases our short term memory in turn reducing the demands placed on the brain's processing power, essentially making us better able to tackle complex problems. MindSparke has continued the early research into IQ training with extensive, real world studies into how to increase IQ even further. MindSparke has evolved and extended the classic dual n-back working memory exercise permitting trainees to increase intelligence well beyond the increases shown in the laboratory.
MindSparke's training yields permanent improvements in analytical ability. These improvements continue into everyday life, benefitting academic work and career.
IQ Training | Brain Training Recommendations
Quick boost: | Four weeks of training followed by a week without training (to consolidate the IQ increase) will improve your IQ score. |
Long term: | Regular long term training will produce further intelligence increases, improved test scores, and academic gains. |