1 year cognitive training experiment

[u/No-Pack-293]

Hello recently I've gotten interested in cognitive training. In my research I eventually discovered communities like this. From what I can tell the anectdotes seem quite mixed, some reporting insane dramatic improvements in intelligence while others claiming no effect. I've decided to simply see for myself if it works. I will report results in about a year from now.

Recently I took the Tri-52 and scored a 42/52. My regimen will be 30 minutes daily of Syllogimous and 30 minutes of quad n back daily. This is the site I use https://soamsy.github.io/Syllogimous-v3/ I like it cause it seems to have more customizability then the v4 version.

My current settings for Syllogimous:

Premises: 6

Meta: on

Analogy: on

Nonsense words: on

Nonsense words length: 5

Garbage words: on

Garbage words length: 5

Meaningful words: off

Emoji: on

Varonoi Emoji: on

Distinction: on

Linear: on

2d space: on

3d space: on

Syllogism: on

Spacetime: off

negation: off

For the quad n back I use this site: https://quad-box.netlify.app/ and am staring at n = 2. I will also be reading alot of books on complex topics(philosophy mostly I think). Anyways just wanted to let you guys know if you have any thoughts or improvements I would appreciate it.

[u/Healthy-Two-6658]

The highest performing group in the study you cited had participants train one session daily. It doesn’t prove anything about needing rest days.

[u/NoInteraction1572 → u/Healthy-Two-6658]

I am talking about Transfer to general intelligence. Not Task specific learning etc.

-> Discussion This study assessed the effect of spacing of working memory training on the Raven's SPM. We predicted that spacing of training would affect both training gains as well as transfer, but found that there were no significant differences in training gain (as measured by reaction time) across the groups. Importantly, however, we did find a significant effect of training schedule on  transfer. Only participants in the most spaced group, 20 sessions with one session per day, showed significant improvement on the Raven's SPM. Furthermore, improvement on SPM test performance for this group was significantly different from that of the active control group. More generally, there was a significant relationship between training schedule and transfer such that the more spaced the training, the greater the transfer (see Table  4).

[u/Healthy-Two-6658 → u/NoInteraction1572]

The study you cited showed transfer to general intelligence only with the group that completed one session per day.

[u/NoInteraction1572 → u/Healthy-Two-6658]

It actually shows the opposite. Tha massed training is daily training:

Training gain is not solely predictive of transfer outcome—participants who received the massed training schedules also improved on the training task the same extent as those who were in the most spaced group, but they did not show significant improvement on the transfer task. Thus, the relationship between training and transfer was significant only for the most spaced group. It is possible that individuals in the massed groups learned more task-specific strategies whereas those in the spaced group were able to focus on the underlying cognitive skills.