Increasing Neuroconnectivity Options

[Iain]

From what I can gather (Please correct me if I'm wrong) intelligence doesn't so much come from the amount of neurons you've got, but the amount of connections among them. That being said making yourself 'smarter' should be as simple as increasing the connections in your brain, but how would you go about doing that?

[x_danny_x]

do you keep this new intelligence or smartness that you get from doing these exercises or learning new skill such as the 2dual n back???

the relation between synaptic density and IQ is speculative. Theoretically, simply increasing number of connections should not yield higher IQ. Rather, it's the specific patterns of connectivity, which is reflected, in part, in the differential weights of connections. Think of a simple neural network. If it's just fully connected, then it's not necessarily going to do anything useful, but if you prune away some of the connections, or alter their weights, then you can transform it into a network for pattern recognition.

how do you go about doing what you just mention or accomplishing? i mean what type of things do you need to do?