
Can intelligence be upgraded like software? In "Smarter," journalist Dan Hurley challenges fixed IQ beliefs with groundbreaking neuroscience, testing everything from memory training to transcranial stimulation on himself. Discover why Malcolm Gladwell fans are buzzing about this science-backed guide to boosting your brain power.
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In 2008, two Swiss researchers dropped a scientific grenade into the neuroscience world. Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl published findings showing that playing a simple computer game for 20 minutes daily could boost fluid intelligence by 40%. This wasn't some pop psychology blog post-it appeared in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For over a century, psychologists had treated intelligence like eye color: you got what you got at birth. Yet here was evidence suggesting your brain could be trained like a bicep. The implications rippled everywhere-from Silicon Valley startups to military labs, from parents of struggling kids to aging baby boomers terrified of cognitive decline. Even Ashton Kutcher reportedly became a devotee. But could it really be true? Could we actually make ourselves smarter? Picture a mental workbench where you juggle information in real time-calculating tips, following directions, comprehending this sentence. That's working memory, and it's fundamentally different from simply remembering facts. While short-term memory stores information passively, working memory actively manipulates it.
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