Brain games will not make you smarter

ALEX WALKER

found they also have no effect on decision-making.

Dr Joseph Kable, the Baird Term associate professor in the department of Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences, and Dr Caryn Lerman, the vice dean for Strategic Initiatives in the Perelman School of Medicine, led the study and their results were published in the Journal of Neuroscience. They hoped commercial brain training regimes could reduce individuals’ propensity to make risky or impulsive choices.

Dr Kable said: “Our motivation was that there are enough hints in the literature that cognitive training deserved a real, rigorous, full-scale test.

“Especially given the addiction angle.”