Who? Torkel Klingberg, professor in cognitive neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm.
Why? He’s discovered that our brains have a filter to keep out “irrelevant” information. It helps us to recall more important things instead.
What’s the use? The study is part of KIingberg’s work to see if we can train our brains to improve memory, IQ and other forms of performance. “It’s a developing field,” he says. “It’s like the early days of medicine, when we first found that some drugs would cure certain diseases. It did not mean that all drugs worked. We need to be very specific when we talk about brain-training. We need to learn about what kind of training provides what kind of effect, and to what extent it may