Comment by michaelcampbell
4 days ago
Gwern has a lot of research and meta-research about this (if memory serves, hah), and in general I seem to recall that doing brain games like dual-n-back makes you better at brain games like dual-n-back.
Which is perhaps not without merit, but...
Concur seeing same research, a thought in the back of my head - does learning one of these games makes you faster at learning other games? Does that translate at learning faster in areas that would use similar recall patterns. There is some research that when you learn N>5 languages (https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-polyglots-brain-processi...) the brain layout changes. What happens when you practice / master >X memory recall games.
Link to Gwern's article: Dual n-Back FAQ - https://gwern.net/dnb-faq