Brain training doesn't improve your general intelligence

From doing Sudoku every morning to playing more chess to learning a musical instrument, lots of people try different ways to become smarter and improve their memory. Thirty-five years after a landmark memory training experiment in 1982, have scientists really found any foolproof way to make us more intelligent? In a new paper, researchers have looked through several cognitive training programmes and find they actually don't improve our general cognitive and academic skills. Writing for The Conversation, PhD Candidate Giovanni Sala and Professor Fernand Gobet from the University of Liverpool say the general public should be fully aware of the benefits - and limits - of training the brain. Music instruction does not seem to exert any true effect on skills outside of music.