Smarter: The New Science Of Building Brain Power
by Dan Hurley /
2013 / English / EPUB
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Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter?
Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter?
Expanding upon one of the most-read
Expanding upon one of the most-readNew York Times
Magazine
New York Times
Magazine features of 2012,
features of 2012,Smarter
Smarter penetrates the hot
new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers
call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering
decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in 2008
showing that fluid intelligence”the ability to learn, solve
novel problems, and get to the heart of thingscan be increased
through training.
penetrates the hot
new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers
call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering
decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in 2008
showing that fluid intelligence”the ability to learn, solve
novel problems, and get to the heart of thingscan be increased
through training.
But is it all just hype? With vivid stories of lives transformed,
science journalist Dan Hurley delivers practical findings for
people of every age and ability. Along the way, he narrates with
acidtongued wit his experiences as a human guinea pig,
road-testing commercial brain-training programs, learning to play
the Renaissance lute, getting physically fit, even undergoing
transcranial directcurrent stimulation.
But is it all just hype? With vivid stories of lives transformed,
science journalist Dan Hurley delivers practical findings for
people of every age and ability. Along the way, he narrates with
acidtongued wit his experiences as a human guinea pig,
road-testing commercial brain-training programs, learning to play
the Renaissance lute, getting physically fit, even undergoing
transcranial directcurrent stimulation.Smarter
Smarter speaks to the audience that made bestsellers out
of
speaks to the audience that made bestsellers out
ofTrain Your Mind, Change Your Brain
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain and
andMoonwalking
with Einstein.
Moonwalking
with Einstein.