brain training does work

brain training does work:

Brain training does work despite the volume of uneducated articles
you may read on so called lifestyle websites. Brain training is a
science, not some developers creating some nice games with graphics.
While some of fun, they have zero scientific evidence or research they
work or are even beneficial.


So, here are RaiseYourIQ, we will continue our mission to provide
published, scientific proof that brain train based on the science of
Relational Frame Theory does work to increase a child’s or adults IQ. In
fact, RaiseYourIQ is the ONLY brain training which has been created
following years of scientific studies by the co-founders of the company,
Dr. Bryan Roche and Dr. Sarah Cassidy. If anyone would like to know
more about how brain training can better equip the ability to learn,
then either Dr. Roche or Dr. Cassidy will be delighted to answer any
questions you may have. Please feel free to reach out to us directly via
this site or any of our social media channels.

Brain Training Evidence

One such scientific paper that the co-founders of RaiseYourIQ
produced along with other academic colleagues, published in the journal
“Learning and Individual Differences” ,Brain Training Science
shows that significant increases in overall intelligence, of 28 points
on average, can be produced by undertaking online relational skills
training or brain training as it’s commonly known. In fact, the research
showed that significant improvements in overall educational aptitude
can be achieved by the user in a few months of practising these
relational skills.


We continue in our mission to provide scientific evidence that a
Relational Frame Theory (RFT) approach to a person’s intellectual
development holds the key to a functional approach to brain training.
Our research into RFT has identified a series of basic building blocks
of intellectual development, which center around the ability of someone
to understand complex inter-relations among stimuli.

Brain Training in Action

A good example of these building blocks is that if we understand that
if something is opposite to two other things, then those two things
must be the same as each other. This calculation involves a relation
skill. Another example to this is if one object is worth more than
another, the second one is worth less than the first. The belief that
these types of skills do not just underlie intelligence, but actualy
constitute it, is core to RFT. We call this a modern behavioral
approach, however it sits well with more mainstream cognitive assessment
approaches.

Brain Training Research

The reality is that most people and children are relatively
proficient in basic relational skills. However, many people are quite
deficient in solving the more complex relational problems. To address
this deficiency, we created our online brain training system and called
it SMART training (Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational
Training). This system was developed by Relational Frame Theory
researchers (psychologists to you and me) at Maynooth University in
Ireland. Another piece of study by Dr. Cassidy et al. was the second
such study to be published by the Maynooth University team to show that
SMART training can increase general intelligence as measured by
standardized IQ tests, such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for
Children (WISC). In fact, this second study provided new additional
evidence that scholastic ability, as measured by a gold standard
aptitude test known as the Differential Aptitude Test (DATs), also
increases as a result of SMART brain training or “intellectual skills
training” to give its proper medical name.


We documented in previous research that a person’s IQ increase cannot
be easily accounted for by practice at the IQ test, because the IQ test
was administered only twice, with several month intervals between
administrations. Furthermore, IQ rises due to practice are usually very
small compared to the rises reported in this latest study. Further
still, the training administered to the sample of 11-12-year-old
children employed in Experiment 1 of this study, was dissimilar to an IQ
test. The same applies to the DATs aptitude test. This was administered
only twice, and the increases in scores observed for numerical and
verbal reasoning far outstripped the increases expected by practice at
the test itself.


It is important to note that the online relational skills training
did not in any way teach the items on the DATs test. This was the second
SMART study to achieve what critics of “brain training” treat as the
benchmark for acceptable brain training; the transfer of skills from the
training to other tasks. In this regard the Cassidy study provides more
evidence that brain training can work to enhance essential intellectual
skills, at least if it focuses on relational skills, or what RFT
researchers call Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding.

Brain Training Evidence

One of the more common criticisms of brain training programs is that
while it can improve the cognitive skills needed to complete the
training, any benefits will have no practical relevance to a person’s
daily life. In one study, however, a sample of thirty 14 to 15-year-old
kids were tracked across several months of online training. This was
completed 2-3 times a week for approx. 30-45 minutes. The evidence
proved that practice at relational skills, increased their numerical and
verbal reasoning abilities, as measured by the DATs (administered and
scored by independent third parties) by a significant degree.


These numerical indices were then used by educators to assess a
child’s overall “educational aptitude”, which is the child’s ability to
perform well in school across the board. By finding a significant
increase in learning ability, the current study suggests that SMART
brain training can make a real and measurable difference to the
education of a child. While more evidence is always required when such
promising results are reported by any new Brain training
method, the case is mounting that a relational frame theory approach to
intellectual development may indeed have identified some basic building
blocks of intelligence, once thought to be an unchangeable trait.


We are not suggesting that brain training games
is the answer to improving everyone’s learning ability or to raise
their IQ, however our scientific research goes a long way to proving
that brain training does work.