Are Brain Training Games Useful?
Until quite recently, most scientists and researchers believed that the main aspects of the cognitive process are fixed from a young age, with very little room for improvement. Memory and sensory processing were believed to be determined after a short period of early development. From this point of view, those who inherited with strong cognitive capacities through genetics were the lucky ones, being successful in life, while those not so fortunately endowed were out of luck and predestined to lose.