This research paper on nature.com, due to be published in the print version of Nature, is about a study on computerised 'brain training' exercises and whether they produce transferrable skills useful for general cognitive tasks. The researchers concluded, in part, that:
In our view these results provide no evidence to support the widely
held belief that the regular use of computerized brain trainers
improves general cognitive functioning in healthy participants
beyond those tasks that are actually being trained.
Further discussion can be found in this nature.com article.
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