Well this is all good news to the rest of us that spend our time in virtual worlds trying the blow the heads off other people in virtual worlds. One of these brain exercises did actually increase higher brain function, but it seems that is not good for much else either.



But neither method made anyone smarter, says Kara Blacker, the study’s lead author and a researcher at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine in Bethesda, Md.

“We want to just be able to pull up our iPhone while we’re sitting on the train or at a bus stop or something, play a game for a couple minutes, and get smarter,” he says. But we can’t.

But we all know that no person ever got smarter by using an iPhone. Just ask Google.

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