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A Working Picture of Intelligence

You can't train what you can't picture. Before asking how to train intelligence, it's worth describing what it actually looks like—and watching each recognizable form of it come apart into the same handful of cognitive processes.

June 6, 20263 min readGilad Kingsley

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Does Cognitive Training Transfer? The Evidence for Process Training

Brain training has a bad reputation, and partly it has earned it. But the exact finding skeptics use to dismiss it — near transfer is real, far transfer isn't — turns out to be the strongest evidence for training foundational processes. Here's the case, including the trials where IQ actually moved.

June 6, 202611 min read

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Rewriting Your Cognitive Future: Intelligence Across the Lifespan

Why cognitive decline isn't inevitable, and how combining prevention with enhancement can transform your mental trajectory from gradual loss to sustained growth.

November 12, 20257 min read

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Lutein, Zeaxanthin & Cognitive Function Across the Lifespan

How two plant pigments found in leafy greens may sharpen young minds and protect aging ones—what the controlled trials actually show, and what to make of it.

November 6, 202511 min read

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Process Overlap Theory: Rethinking Intelligence and Cognitive Training

Why 'general intelligence' might be a statistical illusion, and what this means for effective cognitive training. Understanding POT explains why training foundational processes works while task-specific training fails.

November 6, 20259 min read

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The Science Behind Relatoria: Training Foundational Cognitive Processes

Understanding why Relatoria focuses on foundational cognitive processes and the principle of useful near transfer that makes cognitive training effective.

October 17, 20254 min read

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Color and Cognition: A Surprisingly Deep Connection

A training study designed to induce synesthesia accidentally produced a 12-point IQ gain. The explanation may lie in one of the strongest and least-discussed correlates of intelligence: color discrimination.

February 21, 20257 min read

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The Relational Architecture of Thought

Every domain of human cognition runs on the same fundamental operation: the construction and traversal of relational networks. This has profound implications for how we train intelligence.

February 5, 20258 min read

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