Brain Games Won't Make You Smarter, Study Says  "Brain games"
are certainly fun, but contrary to what many players hope,
they're not likely to make you any smarter. From a six-week
study paid for by the BBC and reported by Discovery News:  Photo
by wetwebwork.   They were compared to more than 2,700 people
who didn't play any brain games, but spent a similar amount of
time surfing the Internet and answering general knowledge
questions.  Researchers said the people who did the brain
training didn't do any better on the test after six weeks than
people who had simply been on the Internet. On some sections of
the test, the people who surfed the Net scored higher than those
playing the games.  Some brain-game manufacturers argued with
the studies results, claiming that the findings didn't apply to
their games. Whether or not the results of that study are on the
money, professor of psychology from the University of Illinois
Art Kramer points out: "There is precious little evidence to
suggest the skills used in the