Increasing Intelligence

A comprehensive overview of the research on enhancing and improving intelligence and working memory

Norbert Jaušovec (Author), Anja Pahor (Author)

9780128094075

Paperback, published 1 February 2017

342 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.52 kg

"The sheer weight of the task that these authors take on is impressive, and the completed product is one that has been absent from the field for a long time. ...Increasing Intelligence consists of ambitious thinking and writing. It is rewarding to see so many issues related to intelligence woven into these authors’ argument." --PsyCRITIQUES

The finding that working memory training can increase fluid intelligence triggered a great number of cognitive training studies, the results of which have been fiercely debated among experts. The finding also prompted a surge of commercial versions of these working memory training programs. Increasing Intelligence overviews contemporary approaches and techniques designed to increase general cognitive ability in healthy individuals. The book covers behavioral training and different electrical stimulation methods such as TMS, tDCS, tACS, and tRNS, along with alternative approaches ranging from neurofeedback to cognitive-enhancing drugs. It describes crucial brain features that underlie intelligent behavior and discusses theoretical and technical shortcomings of the reported studies, then goes on to suggest avenues for future research and inquiry.

1. The Mystery of Intelligence2. The Biological Background of Intelligence3. Raising Intelligence by Means of Behavioral Training4. Changing Brain Activity, Increasing Intelligence: Transcranial Electrical and Magnetic Stimulation5. Other Approaches: From Neurofeedback to Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs6. Once Upon a Time We Were on the Moon

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Cognitive behavioural therapy [MMJT1], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]