Brain Training: May 2020

Friday 29 May 2020

The SMART brain training games from RaiseYourIQ

The SMART brain training program is a revolutionary cognitive enhancement system
developed by the scientific researchers at RaiseYourIQ.

SMART is a scientifically developed educational brain training that has been
proven in published scientific research to raise intelligence levels (IQ) (as measured
using standardized IQ tests) by 20 - 30 IQ points. That makes SMART brain training a
breakthrough in psychological science.

The founders of RaiseYourIQ, Dr Sarah Cassidy and Dr. Bryan Roche are established
University-based researchers in the behavioral and cognitive sciences and have had their
scientific work on learning and cognition published across a wide range of reputable
scientific journals.

SMART brain training helps kids and adults to become expert in a range of critical
cognitive skills, called Relational Skills. These skills underlie just about everything
we do in school, business, at work and in normal day-to-day decision making and
problem-solving.

SMART the only system of brain training, that has been proven to enhance general
intelligence and its components, as well as reading ability, numerical ability and
educational aptitude. The SMART brain training program is adaptable to people of all
ages, from kids to adults, helping them to make learning easier, improve memory recall
and exercise their brains to raise IQ.

The SMART brain training games from RaiseYourIQ:

SMART brain training games for children and adults: scientifically proven brain training games based on relational frame theory to improve intelligence, IQ and learning.

Brain Training: What Is A Relational Skill?

A relational skill is a skill involved in understanding
the relationship between things in the world. Understanding the
relationships between a set of cousins, or understanding that a
particular group of plants are all of the same kind (e.g., flowers), or
understanding that a Poodle is a type of dog but a dog is not a type of
poodle, are all examples of basic relational skills. But of course, they
get more complicated than this. The relational skills you need to
understand high level mathematics or to read and speak well, are more
advanced skills. SMART brain training teaches a range of basic but
crucial relational skills and brings your relational skills to expert
levels, so that all intellectual tasks come easier. SMART brain training
makes you a faster and better learner. SMART helps new information make
more sense, and helps you think more clearly.

What Does Brain Training Involve?

The SMART brain training course from RaiseYourIQ is
divided into levels with blocks of questions. The program involves
teaching the user how to answer blocks of logical questions, first with
feedback – and then on their own without any help. There is 30 seconds
to answer each question. During training blocks, we tell you whether
your answer is correct. During test blocks you need to answer all the
questions on your own. Once you pass a test, you move on to the next
level. You progress like this through the levels, collecting points as
you go. You even get bonus points for revising stages you have passed
before, because the more you revise the smarter your brain will get. The
course should take between three to six months to complete

Thursday 28 May 2020

IQ and your Brain

Like an unbreakable bond, IQ and your brain
are inseparable. For some, learning seems innate; mathematics seems
effortless. But for many of us, it is a different story. So, can we
improve our own IQ.

The debate has been raging for centuries; is intelligence innate or
can it be improved by interventions? Are we born with the necessary
intelligence for learning and success or is our environment responsible
for shaping us? Can we, in fact, shape our own cognitive ability?

Many people believe that our intelligence levels are limited by
biology on IQ and memory. While other psychologists have shown that IQ
can be raised (see Cassidy, Roche & Hayes, 2011) leading to
permanent increases in IQ (Roche, Cassidy &Stewart, 2013). Note: Cassidy and Roche are co-founders of RaiseYourIQ.

There can be different meanings to what we term intelligence. There
is our “biological intelligence” (also known as neural efficiency. Then
we have “psychometric intelligence” which is our measured IQ score (a
method of estimating our biological intelligence).

The question is can we increase our biological intelligence? The
research carried out in the past decade using various intervention tools
(aka, brain training) have proven that it is possible for us to boost
our neural efficiency and mental horsepower. Our cognitive ability can
be made to work more efficiently. and in a more synchronized manner.

More research from Jaeggi (2008) showed that intellectual functioning
could be improved. So, do these studies show us that our IQ score is no
longer a number that limits our ability to grow. Interestingly, some of
the greatest scientific minds of recent times possessed IQs below what
we would call highly intelligent. People such as Richard Feynman, James
Watson and William Shockley all had average IQs.

Another point worth making is that to measure improvement in IQ also
requires us to consider how our intelligence is being measured in the
first place. We should not confuse ability with knowledge. Any of us can
study and improve our vocabulary. But does that make us smarter? To
really measure intelligence, we need to measure the abilities that
underlie the acquisition of knowledge, not the knowledge we current
process.

“High, but not the highest intelligence, combined with the
greatest degree of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the
highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence”

Other psychologists have discovered that there is a strong link
between what they term “relational skills” and IQ scores (O’Hora, Pelaez
& Barnes-Holmes; 2005, O’Toole & Barnes-Holmes;2009, Cassidy,
Roche & Hayes; 2011, Roche, Cassidy & Stewart; 2013). They
showed that these relational skills can be taught which in turn triggers
an increase in IQ scores.

What does relational skills have to do with IQ?

The psychologist mentioned above state that “relational skills are
the understanding of mathematical relationships between concepts or
objects such as things are the same as other things, more or less than
other things, opposite to other things etc” The proved that having a
strong handle on the relationships between and among other things has
been shown to enhance thinking and problem solving skills. Relational
skills are now referred to as the building blocks of intelligence by
psychologists in the field of Relational Frame Theory.

Research from 2011 has shown that using Relational Frame Theory as an intervention can significantly improve IQ scores in children. A more recent study using this intervention also found improvements in IQ, verbal reasoning, and numeric reasoning.

Activities that involve relational training include:

language learning books (“this is a…” and “that is a…”)
object comparisons (full cup versus empty cup)
amount comparisons (penny versus dime)

“While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, the
monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come
to an end

A study aimed to replicate and extend the pilot findings of Cassidy
et al. (2011) which found that teaching children to derive various
relations among stimuli leads to increases in the full scale IQ scores
of both typically developing children and those with educational and
learning difficulties. In the first experiment , fifteen 11–12 year old
children were exposed over several months to an intensive training
intervention to improve their understanding of the relations Same,
Opposite and More and Less. Significant increases in full scale IQ of
around one standard deviation were recorded for each child. In the
second experiment, the same intervention was delivered to thirty
15–17 year old children. Significant increases in verbal and Numerical
Reasoning were recorded for almost every child. These findings
corroborate the idea that relational skills may underlie many forms of
general cognitive ability.

IQ and our Mindset

Scientists now believe that our mindset matters not just on an
emotional level, but also on a physiological level. The fact that we
believe we can improve our learning capability will enhance our
performance in any learning environment. Persisting with tasks even when
they are difficult will help us complete them. We have evidence of this
in business and sport. The ability of those who are less gifted
technically, working harder to achieve higher results. As one
psychologist put it “when the chips are down, the person or kid who
works harder will help themselves to deliver the results.”

This mindset is about getting outside of our comfort zones in a
focused way, having clear goals, with a plan for reaching those goals,
and a way to monitor our progress. Research shows that we can increase
our brain’s functioning by pushing ourselves to learn things that are
outside of our current skill set. Learn to play an instrument, a new
language, or a new skill. This has the effect of exercising our brain in
a new way which expands our brain’s neural networks.

Also, as some of our abilities such as fluid reasoning, crystallized
intelligence or verbal abilities are more stable over time, others are
less stable as in short-term memory and cognitive processing speed. So,
working our brain or doing brain exercises can increase brain
functioning.

IQ and our Brain

More and more evidence based, and scientifically validated research
seems to point to the fact that it is possible for us to raise our
intelligence levels through brain training activities.Memory training,
executive control, and reasoning can help to boost our intelligence
levels. The best way to train these areas of our brain is to engage in
thoughtful activities and games, learn new skills, and keep our brains
active.

IQ and your Brain

Brain Speed Games to Improve Skills

SMART Brain Speed Training

The SMART Brain Speed game will improve your information processing and visualization skills. At RaiseYourIQ we know that fluency is a crucial part of your intellectual activity. How quickly your brain can process the events around you determine how effectively you can react to and remember those events.

At RaiseYourIQ we believe the key to improving processing speed lies in making stronger connections in your brain, which allow your brain signals to travel at higher speeds. Though most of this type of hard wiring of the brain occurs during childhood, you can still take action to sustain and even potentially improve your brain’s processing speed.

Our game will help you increase your relational skill fluency by choosing any training stage that you have mastered within SMART, but which still challenges you. You then select a lower response time limit within the game to enhance your fluency.

When we talk about the processing speed of the brain, we are referring to the rate at which anyone can take in a new piece of information, reach an understanding about it, and then formulate a response to it. Based on this definition of fluency, we believe the key to improving your brain processing speed lies in making stronger connections in the brain, which allows your brain signals to travel at higher speeds.

The science behind SMART Brain Speed is that it works on the long-term transfer of processing-speed training skills to real-world educational, professional, social, communication, and life skills.

Brain Speed Games to Improve Skills

Intellectual Development Help

Intellectual and cognitive development is not limited to children as adults brain functions also continue to grow throughout life stages. Intellectual development is all about our ability to process information, learn, think and understand various strands that surround our living world. Brain training works to improve our cognitive abilities and develop skills in logical reasoning, memory, maths, science, reading, writing and verbal comprehension.

RaiseYourIQ has developed the "SMART Brain Training" platform to help people improve IQ, expand their logic and reasoning abilities while matching thinking and planning abilities with actions.

Cognitive Training Exercises

Cognitive training exercises are a series of brain games, tasks and puzzles to be completed by the adult or kid user. Cognitive training (brain training by another name) works to increase fluid intelligence which can be defined as the ability to solve “on the spot” problems that cannot be performed by relying on previously learned habits. Research has shown large improvement in the brains reasoning skills when people engaged in working memory training while people who consume trivia knowledge via games show no improvement in reasoning skills.

Clinical data shows people who complete cognitive training will attain

(a) high working memory,
(b) high cognition skills while
(c) addressing any cognitive deficits.

Thursday 21 May 2020

Personal brain training games

Personal brain training games: RaiseYourIQ SMART brain training is our flagship product for both personal and professional users. It is scientifically based on established principles of learning that have been proven to underlie intellectual development across a wide range of areas (reading, problem solving, reasoning, and so on).

The Academic Research Team behind RaiseYourIQ has helped to develop a widely used theory of cognitive development known as Relational Frame Theory and have harnessed the vast evidence base for this theory to deliver the most powerful brain training tool ever produced.

SMART is the only brain training tool in the world to be supported by published scientific research from several independent laboratories. No other tool has been proven in the scientific literature to significantly enhance general intelligence or educational aptitude.

The founders of RaiseYourIQ (Doctor Bryan Roche and Doctor Sarah Cassidy) have played a key role identifying how “relational skills training” impacts a person’s intellectual ability. We then devised the SMART brain training course to teach people these crucial learning skills. RaiseYourIQ have also published two experiments which show that IQ can be increased by a large amount using our method – something no other brain training company has done.

Brain Training: What Is A Relational Skill?

A relational skill is a skill involved in understanding the relationship between things in the world. Understanding the relationships between a set of cousins, or understanding that a particular group of plants are all of the same kind (e.g., flowers), or understanding that a Poodle is a type of dog but a dog is not a type of poodle, are all examples of basic relational skills. But of course, they get more complicated than this. The relational skills you need to understand high level mathematics or to read and speak well, are more advanced skills.
SMART Brain Training teaches a range of basic but crucial relational skills and brings your relational skills to expert levels, so that all intellectual tasks come easier. SMART brain training makes you a faster and better learner. SMART helps new information make more sense, and helps you think more clearly.

What is Cognitive Learning?

Cognitive learning is your ability to acquire or learn new things and then the ability to process, reason, retain and relate this new information into your everyday life or education. Learning is about "Thinking using your Brain", so the fitter the brain is to process information, the better your thinking, problem solving and cognitive skills. Cognitive learning works to underpin academic learning and your intelligence levels by improving a child's or adults’ mental capabilities which opens the brains ability to successfully learn new information and concepts like science, math, languages, formulas etc.

Thursday 14 May 2020

The science behind brain training

The science behind brain training: The science and scientific evidence supporting brain training from RaiseYourIQ

The Science behind SMART Intellectual Skills Training

Dr. Bryan Roche and Dr. Sarah Cassidy have worked as scientists for many years in the
development of the SMART brain training method. The RaiseYourIQ approach to brain health is based on Relational Frame Theory – a modern theory of cognition that our team has helped to develop over the past two decades. Dr. Roche was the co-editor of the two seminal texts on this theory. Dr. Cassidy was the leading researcher behind the first demonstration of IQ gains resulting from relational skills training.

RaiseYourIQ offers the only brain training system in the world that is based on tried and tested
systems of intellectual skills interventions used in the clinical setting (for example the methods of
Applied Behaviour Analysis), and that has been shown in published scientific research to lead to real,
large, and objectively measurable gains in general intelligence (IQ). No other method benefits from
even a single study, showing large and reliable IQ gains as a result of training.

Our SMART system has achieved the holy grail of brain training across several different published
studies. That is, we have achieved what scientists call evidence of “far transfer”. This means that
increased scores on an IQ test have been proven to result from training on skills that are not
directly assessed on the IQ test. In other words, the benefits of our SMART training have been proven
to transfer far into intellectual areas that we do not train directly in our system but which are
assessed in general intelligence tests (e.g., vocabulary, verbal comprehension, analogical reasoning,
numeracy, and so on). This makes SMART training truly unique and revolutionary in its approach to
intellectual skills enhancement.

Some of the other tools that we have made available here to schools or clinics (SMART for Dyslexia,
KidStarter, FAST emotional flexibility training) are also based on Relational Frame Theory concepts,
or on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods, which are heavily conceptualised in terms of
Relational Frame Theory.

FAQ's

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Sample of Scientific Evidence Papers

Direct evidence for the SMART approach

Amd, M., & Roche, B. (2018). Assessing the effects of a
relational training intervention on fluid intelligence among a sample of
socially disadvantaged children in Bangladesh. The Psychological
Record, 68(2), 141–149.

Cassidy, S., Roche, B., Colbert, D., Stewart, I., & Grey, I.
(2016). A relational frame skills training intervention to increase
general intelligence and scholastic aptitude. Learning and Individual
Differences, 47, 222–235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2016.03.001.

Cassidy, S., Roche, B., & Hayes, S. C. (2011). A relational frame
training intervention to raise Intelligence Quotients: A pilot study.
The Psychological Record, 61, 173–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/
BF03395755.

Colbert, D., Tyndall, I., Roche, B., & Cassidy, S. (2018). Can
SMART training really increase Intelligence? A Replication Study.
Journal of Behavioral Education, 27, 509-531.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-018-9302-2

Hayes, J., & Stewart, I. (2016). Comparing the effects of derived
relational training and computer coding on intellectual potential in
school-age children. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 86,
397–411. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12114.

McLoughlin, S., Tyndall, I., & Pereira, A. (2018). A brief
relational operant training program: Analyses of response latencies and
intelligence. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 19 (2). 228-246.
DOI: 10.1080/15021149.2018.1507087.

Thirus, J., Starbrink, M., & Jansson, B. (2016). Relational frame
theory, mathematical and logical skills: A multiple exemplar training
intervention to enhance intellectual performance. International Journal
of Psychology & Psychological Therapy, 16(2), 141–155.

Presti, G., Torregrosssa, S., Migliore, D., Roche, B., Cumbo, E.
(2018). Relational Training Intervention as add-on therapy to current
specific treatments in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s
disease. International Journal of Psychology and Neuoscience, 3, 88-97.

Vizcaíno-Torres, R.M., Ruiz, F., Luciano, C., López-López, J.,
Barbero-Rubio, A., & Gil, E. (2015). The effect of relational
training on intelligence quotient. A case study. Psicothema, 27(2), 120-
127. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2014.149.

Theoretical background to SMART

Andrews, G., & Halford, G. S. (1998). Children’s ability to make
transitive inferences: The importance of premise integration and
structural complexity. Cognitive Development, 13, 479–513. https://doi.
org/10.1016/S0885-2014(98)90004-1.

Barnes-Holmes, D., Finn, M., McEnteggart, C., Barnes-Holmes, Y.
(2017). Derived Stimulus Relations and Their Role in a Behavior-Analytic
Account of Human Language and Cognition. Perspectives on Behavior
Science, 41, 155–173. DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-017-0124-7

Cassidy, S., Roche, B. & O’Hora, D. (2010). Relational Frame
Theory and human intelligence. European Journal of Behavior Analysis,
11, 37-51.

Halford, G., Wilson, W., & Phillips, S. (2010). Relational
knowledge: The foundation of higher cognition. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 14(11), 497–505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2010.08.005.

Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (Eds.) (2001).
Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and
cognition. New York: Kluwer Academic.

Hayes, J., Stewart, I 7 McElwee, J. (2016). Assessing and Training
Young Children in Same and Different Relations Using the Relational
Evaluation Procedure (REP). The Psychological Record, 66, 547–561.
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-016-0191-2

Marr, M. (2015). Mathematics as verbal behavior. Behavioural
Processes, 113, 75–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2015.01.005.

Rehfeldt, R. A & Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2009). Derived Relational
Responding Applications for Learners with Autism and Other Developmental
Disabilities: A Progressive Guide to Change. San Francisco: New
Hartbinger.

Roche, B., Cassidy, S. & Stewart, I. (2013). Nurturing genius:
Realizing a foundational aim of Psychology. In Kashdan, T &
Ciarrochi, J. (Eds.), Cultivating well-being: Treatment innovations in
Positive Psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and beyond, pp.
267-302. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

Stewart, I., McLoughlin, S., Mulhern, T., Ming, S., & Kirsten, A.
(in press). Assessing and teaching complex relational operants: Analogy
and hierarchy. In R. Rehfeldt, J. Tarbox, M. Fryling & L. Hayes
(Eds.), Applied Behavior Analysis of Language and Cognition. New
Harbinger.

Stewart, I., Tarbox, J., Roche, B., & O’Hora, D. (2013). Education,
intellectual development, and relational frame theory. In S. Dymond
& B. Roche (Eds.), Advances in relational frame theory: Research
& application (pp. 178–198). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.

Evidence that relational skills are related to intelligence

Cassidy, S., Roche, B., & O’Hora, D. (2010). Relational Frame
Theory and Human Intelligence. European Journal of Behavior Analysis,
11(1), 37–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/15021149.2 010.11434333

Colbert, D., Barrett, S. Malone, A & Roche, B. (In press, 2019).
The Relational Abilities Index+: Initial Validation of a Functionally
Understood Proxy Measure for Intelligence. Perspectives on Behavioral
Science. DOI:10.1007/s40614-019-00197-z

Colbert, D., Dobutowitsch, M., Roche, B., & Brophy, C. (2017).
The proxy-measurement of intelligence quotients using a relational
skills abilities index. Learning and Individual Differences.
https://doi. org/10.1016/j.lindif.2017.03.010.

Dixon, M., Whiting, S., Rowsey, K., & Belisly, J. (2014).
Assessing the relationship between intelligence and the PEAK relational
training system. Research In Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8(9), 1208–
1213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2014.05.005.

Gore, N. J., Barnes-Holmes, Y., & Murphy, G. (2010). The
relationship between intellectual functioning and relational
perspective-taking. International Journal of Psychology &
Psychological Therapy, 10, 1–17.

Moran, L., Stewart, I., McElwee, J., & Ming, S. (2010). Brief
report: The training and assessment of relational precursors and
abilities (TARPA): A preliminary analysis. Journal of Autism and Devel-
opmental Disorders, 40(9), 1149–1153.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-010-0968-0.

O’Hora, D., Pelaez, M., & Banres-Holmes, D. (2005). Derived
relational responding and performance on verbal subtests of the
WAIS-III. The Psychological Record, 55, 155–175.
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395504.

O’Hora, D., Pelaez, M., Barnes-Holmes, D., Rae, G., Robinson, T.,
& Chaudhary, T. (2008). Temporal relations and intelligence:
Correlating relational performance with performance on the WAIS-III. The
Psychological Record, 58, 569–583. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395638.

O’Toole, C., Barnes-Holmes, D., Murphy, C., O’Connor, J., &
Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2009). Relational flexibility and intelligence:
Extending the remit of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior. International Journal
of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 9, 1–17.

Evidence that relational skills can be enhanced and generalize to novel situations

Barnes-Holmes, Y. Barnes-Holmes, D. Roche, B, & Smeets, P. M. (2001). Exemplar
training and a derived transformation of function in accordance with symmetry.
The Psychological Record, 51, 287- 308.

Barnes-Holmes, Y. Barnes-Holmes, D. Roche, B, & Smeets, P. M.
(2001). Exemplar training and a derived transformation of function in
accordance with symmetry II. The Psychological Record, 51, 589-603.

Stewart, I, Barnes-Holmes, D., Roche, B. & Smeets, P. M. (2001).
Generating derived relational networks via the abstraction of common
physical properties: A possible model of analogical reasoning. The
Psychological Record, 51, 381-408.

Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Roche, B. & Smeets, P. M.
(2001). The development of self and perspective-taking: A Relational
frame analysis. Behavior Development Bulletin, 1, 42-45.

Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Smeets, P. M. (2004).
Establishing relational responding in accordance with opposite as
generalized operant behavior in young children. International Journal of
Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 559–586.

Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., & McHugh, L. (2004).
Teaching derived relational responding to young children. Journal of
Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 1(1), 3-12.

Berens, N., & Hayes, S. (2007). Arbitrarily applicable
comparative relations: Experimental evidence for a relational operant.
Journal of Applied Behaviour Analysis, 40(1), 45–71.
https://doi.org/10.1901/ jaba.2007.7-06.

Gomez, S., Lopez, F., Martin, C. B., Barnes-Holmes, Y., &
Barnes-Holmes, D. (2007). Exemplar training and a derived transformation
of functions in accordance with symmetry and equivalence. The
Psychological Record, 57, 273–293. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395577.

Luciano, C., Becerra, I., & Valverde, M. (2007). The role of
multiple-exemplar training and naming in establishing derived
equivalence in an infant. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of
Behavior, 87(3), 349–365. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2007.08-06.

McKeel, A. N., Dixon, M. R., Daar, J. H., Rowsey, K. E., &
Szekely, S. (2015). Evaluating the efficacy of the PEAK relational
training system using a randomized controlled trial of children with
autism. Journal of Behavioral Education, 24, 230–241.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-015-9219-y.

Rosales, R., Rehfeldt, R. A, Lovett, S. (2011). Effects of multiple
exemplar training on the emergence of derived relations in preschool
children learning a second language. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior,
27, 61–74.

Ruiz, F. J., & Luciano, C. (2011). Cross- domain analogies as
relating derived relations among two separate relational networks.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 95(3), 369– 385.
https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2011.9 5-369

Dyslexia Online Training Game from RaiseYourIQ

SMART Brain Training for Personal, Professional and Education.

SMART BRAIN TRAINING FOR DYSLEXIA

SMART for Dyslexia. We have developed a version of our flagship SMART brain training especially for people with verbal sequencing, or letter discrimination issues and visual processing speed difficulties which are often associated with dyslexic readers. SMART training for Dyslexia teaches fluency in word discrimination and basic sentence grammar principles at the same time.

The SMART for dyslexia training works to reduce the cognitive symptoms of dyslexia that result from cognitive impairment. Research and academic studies show that dyslexia is a condition that makes learning to read and write difficult for millions of people around the world. By reducing the symptoms of dyslexia, our users can improve their daily activities whether at school, in work or in their everyday personal lives.

SMART brain training for dyslexia is founded in research and scientific validation by independent entities.

Note: SMART does not treat dyslexia but works to improve cognitive skills affected by this disorder.

Dyslexia Online Training Game from RaiseYourIQ:

Will brain training help my child who has learning difficulties?

How long does Brain Training take to complete? Yes, children with both general and specific learning difficulties can use and benefit from the SMART brain training program. Children with a whole host of developmental difficulties will also benefit from this program.
SMART brain training is an intellectual skills training program that improves the basic cognitive skills we all need to function at our peak. All users start their training with different levels of intellectual ability, but SMART adapts to each user’s learning pace so that each user progresses at exactly the right pace in reaching their full intellectual potential.
The generic SMART training and SMART training for Dyslexia is designed with every type of user in mind, so users with any type of learning difficulty should benefit from the program in a general way.
We have studies to show how SMART can help greatly to improve the intellectual functioning of people with such disorders (e.g., dyslexia, ADHD).

Monday 11 May 2020

Brain exercise for wellness

Brain exercise for wellness: Brain Exercise for Wellness

Brain exercise for wellness and mindfulness is important at any time but especially in times of stress or uncertainty. We have evolved to move, for both our bodies and our brain. Both have become fine-tuned to overcome challenges and crisis across the centuries. Research is showing the toll this relatively new sedentary lifestyle is taking on our bodies. In the U.S. the expected life span of younger generations will be shorter and unhealthier than the lives of their parents. Doctors tell us we should be going to the gym, exercise daily, and eat the right kind of food.

While this advice is helpful, many of us forget about another important part of ourselves: our brain. If all accept that psychical exercise is good for our bodies then you should also accept what medical research has long suspected, that the same holds true for our brains. Numerous university and medical research projects have gone into examining the effect of brain training and brain exercise to improve attention, memory, and IQ. Published studies now show very consistent findings that the brain works better after exercise.

The past decade has provided psychologists and scientists with the tools to understand the mechanisms at play to improve our brain via exercise. We know that Relational Frame Training alongside other brain exercise routines lead to changes in how the brain operates. The effect has bolstered the ability of kids to learn, given adults increases relating to cognitive tasks, and even to reduce the cognitive decline associate with aging.
So, let’s talk about the impact of brain exercise for wellness has on your head and your heart.

Brain Exercise Gives Our Brain a Boost

During brain exercise it becomes much more active than at any other time. All of us have two types of brain waves caused by synchronized pules, these are lower frequency and higher frequency waves. The lower frequency waves are to do with tasks such as washing, sleeping, shopping and other routine tasks. While higher frequency waves (known as beta waves) occur when we are mentally active and are associated with our attention, working memory and mental processing capabilities.
Researchers have found that brain exercise has an impact on both the amplitude and frequency of brain waves. This means we become more alert and engaged. Similar to our overall health, if we don’t exercise our bodies, it will deteriorate over time, same goes for our brains if we don’t exercise it.

Build Up Your Neurotransmitters

Very similar to the way that our muscles require a lot more energy during exercise, the brain consumes glucose and other carbohydrates when it and our bodies are active.
Scientists have discovered that our brains will use some of this energy to build more neurotransmitters. These are the chemicals that relay messages around our nervous system. The conclusion is that brain exercise and physical activity has the effect of restocking our brains with essential neurotransmitters to operate optimally.
In fact, this may be why exercise in general has been shown to alleviate depression.
A Younger Brain
We know from published studies which suggest that exercise kickstarts the production of growth factors which nourish new neurons while helping existing cells survive. One such study found that mentally and psychically active people tend to have healthier blood vessels plus a brain that appears to be younger.
While these changes in our brains can take at a few weeks to develop, they do lead to long lasting improvements in the regions of our brains associated with cognitive tasks such as working memory.
Research carried out in the 1990’s showed that our brain will reach its peak performance between the ages of 16 and 25. After that, our cognitive functioning or our ability to mentally process and carry out tasks starts to decline naturally. So, our ability to change, process certain tasks, and introduce new processes will become harder.
We should understand the importance of this since brain exercise programs have been are designed to keep our brain functional. A few simple examples of this is being able to do our daily tasks, remembering information, retaining memories, and ability to focus. This may not seem a big issue now, however it will become more relevant as we age when the threat of dementia, amnesia, or Alzheimer’s appear, issues that could be reduced through regular brain exercise.
Even more research into aging adults and brain exercise have shown an increase in Gray matter volume in regions of the brain associated with general intelligence and executive functions. This includes everything from our attention skills to planning to our problem-solving capabilities.
Increased Focus and Concentration Skills
Regular exercise changes the number of neurons in our brains and how they communicate. People who exercise regularly show increased connectivity between parts of the brain involved in memory, attention, decision-making, multitasking, and processing information. At the same time, people who focus on skills and repeated attention to detail tasks have lower connections with a region of our brains usual associated to mind wandering. This indicates that fit and healthy people may have increased focus or concentration skills.

Do Brain Exercise Techniques Work?

Doctor Bryan Roche and Doctor Sarah Cassidy, the co-founders of RaiseYourIQ have published several scientific papers on our Relational Frame Training can increase your IQ and other gains relating to improving cognition and brain fitness. Dr. Roche has developed an online intervention, based on Relational Frame Theory, that is the only intervention currently known by psychologists to increase IQ by clinically significant degrees (around 15 points) for many or most users. This method is known as SMART (Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training).
Dr. Roche also conducts research into fear and avoidance as part of wider interest in anxiety, and has developed a new implicit test, built from first learning principles, called the FAST (Function Acquisition Speed Test), also available online as a test and in modified form as a therapeutic intervention to enhance psychological flexibility in the context of troubling emotional issues.

Final Thought on Brain Exercise

There are numerous reasons to consider a brain exercise regime just the same as physical exercise to maintain our health. Brain training exercise do not take very long and can easily become part and parcel of our daily lives. Furthermore, we now know that a brain exercise program can improve our focus, learning, working memory, IQ and most importantly, our ability to enjoy undertaking daily activity with ease.

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RaiseYourIQ SMART brain training is our flagship product for both personal and professional users. It is scientifically based on established principles of learning that have been proven to underlie intellectual development across a wide range of areas (reading, problem solving, reasoning, and so on).

What is Cognitive Learning?

Cognitive learning is your ability to acquire or learn new things and then the ability to process, reason, retain and relate this new information into your everyday life or education. Learning is about "Thinking using your Brain", so the fitter the brain is to process information, the better your thinking, problem solving and cognitive skills. Cognitive learning works to underpin academic learning and your intelligence levels by improving a child's or adults’ mental capabilities which opens the brains ability to successfully learn new information and concepts like science, math, languages, formulas etc.

Brain Training: What Is A Relational Skill?

A relational skill is a skill involved in understanding the relationship between things in the world. Understanding the relationships between a set of cousins, or understanding that a particular group of plants are all of the same kind (e.g., flowers), or understanding that a Poodle is a type of dog but a dog is not a type of poodle, are all examples of basic relational skills. But of course, they get more complicated than this. The relational skills you need to understand high level mathematics or to read and speak well, are more advanced skills.
SMART Brain Training teaches a range of basic but crucial relational skills and brings your relational skills to expert levels, so that all intellectual tasks come easier. SMART brain training makes you a faster and better learner. SMART helps new information make more sense, and helps you think more clearly.