Be better at math: Running causes neurogenesis in spatial reasoning region.

As mentioned below, BrainWorkshop(<a href="http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/</a>) is an open source version of the software, and they offer usage statistics if anyone's interested: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoDHizcNs2tWdDdYbzhnOUFPTUd1ZERES1Q5TjJZd3c&#38;authkey=CPn--0Y#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoDHizcNs2tWdDd...</a>

Sidenote 1: Turing was a world-class runner. Not data, just interesting.<p>Sidenote 2: This page appears to be as much a product advertisement as news/research.

Spatial reasoning is indeed correlated to mathematical talent, but from this study you cannot really conclude that running == better math. In any case, one more datum to the tons of evidence showing that exercise is good for you :-)

I see some combination involving running, a double-n-back program, a GPS receiver and goggles with a head up display yielding some iteractive think-while-you-run training regime.<p>Achievement unlocked: used the program for 100 hours without being run over by a car.

TIL people will fork out good money to play the n-back tasks we torture people with in the scanner.

The researchers behind this have pretty solid backgrounds: <a href="http://www.highiqpro.com/high-iq-pro/high-iq-pro-expertise" rel="nofollow">http://www.highiqpro.com/high-iq-pro/high-iq-pro-expertise</a><p>Here's a study on improving fluid intellience from Jaeggi and Buschkuehl (two of the people on their team): <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/04/25/0801268105.full.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/04/25/0801268105.full...</a><p>Does anyone here have any experience actually using this?

I like their quotes at the bottom about the cognitive benefits of running.<p>One from a Nobel prize winning phsyicist... the other from Alanis Morissette.

So it's not clear from the article if it's specifically running or any sort of spatial exercise like playing a sport or even swimming.

Running on a treadmill (i.e. exertion) or running out in the open (i.e. actively using spatial reasoning not to hit things)?

<i>The running mice clocked up an average of 15 miles (24km) a day!</i><p>I like the idea of this study but that's an awful lot of running. What if a human had to run a marathon every day to see this benefit?<p>Maybe someone will find that running in Call of Duty has the same effect.

See the companion article: <a href="http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2012/02/mismeasure-of-neuroscience.html" rel="nofollow">http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2012/02/mismeasure-of...</a>

The software claims to replicate the physiological effects of running. If a person combined a consistent exercise regime with this software training, will he/she turn into a genius?

This means I'm not going to get better at math, doesn't it?

Couldn't it just be because you have to do some spatial reasoning to navigate terrain at speed?<p>That is to say, where is the link to math?