Can You Increase Your I.Q.?

I'm sure most of you have read this article/research.  It is titled, "Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts: Training Can Increase Fluid Intelligence, Once Thought to Be Fixed at Birth."  However, I just ran across it yesterday.  In short, it countermands established views that I.Q.'s are static (until late life when they drop off dramatically in some people). Instead, the researchers assert that adult I.Q.'s may in fact be malleable.  The articles lists the names of several of the researchers if you want to look further into the topic.  Also, there are several free versions of the dual-n-back games that are discussed in the article.  So, I don't come across as marketing a certain developer, I will leave it up to you to choose the game.  I tried the game out; it was fun. :)

                                                         Image of brain courtesy of Microsoft Office

P.S. You might also be interested in a new article I have written for YCN: "3 U.S. Government Websites to Bookmark"


Update (1/10/2013): This article in Kurzweil.net notes that two research studies, which were completed in 2012, fail to support the above hypothesis.  However, even more interesting, the largest of these studies noted a strong correlation between video game playing and some aspects of I.Q.