Watchung Booksellers Author Event - Dan Hurley, "Smarter: The New Science of Building Brainpower"

In 2012, the New York Times Magazine published Dan Hurley's piece "Can You Make Yourself Smarter?", which went on to become on the magazine's most-read articles of the year. Now, in Smarter, Dan Hurley expandso n his previous report, revealing what researchers have called a "revolution" in human intellectual abilities.

Shattering decades of dogma, in 2008 scientists began publishing studies showing that "fluid intelligence" - the ability to learn and solve novel problems - can be increased through training. But is it all just hype? With vivid stories of lives transformed and witty stories of his experiences as a human guinea pig, science journalist Dan Hurley delivers practical findings.

Dan Hurley is a widely published science journalist whose work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, the Washington Post and Neurology. He is also featured in the 2013 PBS documentary Smarter Brains.

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