Do We Need Brain Training Games?
Until quite recently, most neuroscientists believed that core aspects of cognitive processing were essentially fixed from a young age, with little or no room for improvement. Capacities like memory, attention, and sensory processing were thought to be largely determined after a relatively brief period of early development. In this worldview, those endowed with strong cognitive capacities through genetics and early development was destined to operate at a high level throughout much of their lives. Those not so fortunately endowed were out of luck.
