How Trident G – IQ Pro Works

Trident G – IQ Pro includes:

• A 20-day Coach-led programme
• Unlimited training through available games and modes
• Capacity Gym for memory, focus, working memory, attention control, binding, and flexible updating
• Reasoning Gym for logic, inference, relation matching, constraint solving, and problem-solving
• Zone Pulse Test for brain-state calibration before training
• Tracker for cognitive assessments and repeated applied-intelligence tracking
• Manual Mode for self-directed practice
• Desktop and mobile compatibility

Trident G – IQ Pro is built around a Coach-led training programme designed to improve general intelligence through a far-transfer protocol. The in-app coach chooses the next training route, sets the workload, and guides the user across Capacity Gym, Reasoning Gym, and Tracker.

The programme uses two kinds of progression: horizontal transfer and vertical transfer.

Horizontal transfer

Horizontal transfer means practising the same underlying mental skill across different surface forms. For example, the app may train the same working-memory control demand with:

• letters
• locations
• objects
• relations
• real-world meanings
• nonsense meanings

The aim is to stop the trained skill being tied to one familiar game format.

Vertical transfer

Vertical transfer means gradually increasing the level of reasoning demand. The coach moves from easier recognition and control tasks towards deeper forms of relational binding, rule use, inference, and fluid reasoning challenges.

Together, the horizontal and vertical protocol is intended to make training less like memorising one game and more like building flexible thinking capacity.

The Coach-led programme is organised as a 20-day training pathway. The programme starts and ends with optional short, scientifically validated cognitive tests in the Tracker, so users can compare baseline and post-training scores.

Recommended Tracker use:

1. Take the pre-training 12-item IQ test before the programme begins.
2. Complete the 20-day Coach-led training programme.
3. Take the post-training IQ test after completing the programme.
4. Use the Tracker scale for everyday applied intelligence, resilience, and AI-use effects over time.
5. Repeat this scale every 5 sessions to track change across the programme.

The Tracker is therefore not only a one-off test area. It is used to monitor cognitive assessment scores and applied-intelligence changes across the training period.

Before each day’s training, it is recommended to complete the 3-minute Zone Pulse task. Zone Pulse is based on the Majority Function Task, masked version (MFT-m). In each trial, the user simply judges the direction most arrows are pointing.

The task provides an objective measure of cognitive control capacity in bits per second. This gives the in-app coach an objective brain-state signal about whether the day’s session should be:

• a full training day
• a reduced route
• a lighter stabilising session

Zone Pulse is a distinctive feature in the brain-training space, and the task can provide cognitive training benefits for performance in its own right.

Evidence note

Research on MFT-m training includes a 2024 study in which 84 healthy young adults were randomly assigned to either 7 days of MFT-m training or a sham control programme. Participants were assessed before and after training using behavioural tasks and EEG recordings. Compared with controls, the training group performed better on several attention tasks and also performed better on learning trials in a verbal memory test. EEG findings indicated improved neural efficiency of attentional processing.

The capacity estimation method underlying the Zone Pulse measure is described in: Tsetsos, K., & colleagues (2016). The capacity of cognitive control estimated from a perceptual decision making task. Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/srep34025

Capacity Gym trains the run-time efficiency of thinking and problem-solving. It uses n-back tasks, including novel relational n-back tasks, to train:

• working memory
• attention control
• binding
• flexible updating
• mental focus
• run-time control under load

The idea is that Capacity Gym strengthens the mental workspace and control system needed for later reasoning.

What the n-back training is intended to support

Working memory functions as the user’s mental workspace. N-back training can improve working memory as measured by non-trained working-memory tasks and by EEG/ERP markers.

Salmi and colleagues (2019) describe the effect:

“When task demands are high, training may lead to an improved ability to actively maintain several stimuli in memory, and when they are low, training results in more efficient processing and automatization.”

A large-scale review of n-back studies by Sayed and colleagues in the Journal of Intelligence found a small but significant enhancement in working memory, with a standardised mean difference of 0.335, 95% CI [0.223, 0.447], p < .001. Further analysis found no significant differences between different working-memory training programmes, concluding that working-memory capacity in healthy adults can be improved through training.

An effect size of around 0.34 represents a small-to-medium effect. Trident G – IQ Pro aims to enhance the value of n-back training by using a Horizontal Transfer Protocol, switching between different n-back games to encourage deeper cognitive gains.

In the app logic, the cognitive efficiencies gained from n-back training—particularly relational n-back training—are intended to support reasoning ability, which is central to IQ.

Reasoning Gym trains inference and fluid reasoning more directly. It uses tasks such as:

• relation matching
• constraint solving
• must-follow reasoning
• rule-based reasoning
• logical inference

Capacity Gym prepares the run-time control system. Reasoning Gym then asks the user to use that control for rule-based thinking and logical inference.

The coach alternates the meanings of reasoning items. This is designed to reduce dependence on familiar meanings alone and encourage the user to preserve the underlying reasoning structure across changed content.

Evidence note

Reasoning training has been associated in research with brain network efficiencies for high-level cognition, improvements in fluid reasoning, and improvements in academic performance. Research findings indicate that strengthened parietal-striatal connections provide strong evidence for neural plasticity at the level of large-scale networks supporting high-level cognition.

The training sequence is designed around a simple relationship: Capacity Gym prepares the run-time control system; Reasoning Gym uses that control for inference, rules, relations, and problem-solving.

Capacity Gym targets the mental workspace and control functions needed to hold and update information under load. Reasoning Gym then uses that improved control foundation for higher-level reasoning tasks, including relation matching, constraint solving, must-follow reasoning, logical inference, and fluid reasoning challenges.

This is why the programme combines capacity training and reasoning training rather than treating them as separate games.

Manual Mode lets users explore the games themselves. In Manual Mode, users can:

• choose any available Capacity or Reasoning game
• adjust difficulty where available
• adjust speed where available
• experiment with training according to their own preference
• review and practise specific tasks
• use the app for curiosity-driven exploration

Manual Mode is useful for review, practice, and self-directed training. Coach-led Mode is recommended when the user wants the structured 20-day far-transfer programme.

Tracker is the assessment and monitoring area of the app. It is used to support:

• baseline testing before training
• post-training comparison after the 20-day programme
• ongoing tracking of applied intelligence
• ongoing tracking of resilience
• ongoing tracking of AI-use effects over time

The applied-intelligence, resilience, and AI-use tracking scale is recommended every 5 sessions. The Tracker therefore helps users distinguish between simply playing training tasks and monitoring wider changes across the programme.

Optional live coaching may be available with Dr Mark Ashton Smith for users who want additional guidance on how to use Trident G – IQ Pro, interpret their training route, and apply the programme consistently. Contact IQ Mindware for current coaching availability and pricing.

Trident G – IQ Pro is available through a one-time licence and is desktop and mobile compatible. See the current product page for access options, licence terms, and pricing.

Trident G – IQ Pro is a Coach-led IQ and cognitive resilience training app that combines brain-state calibration, working-memory and capacity training, reasoning training, and integrated tracking. The 20-day programme begins with optional baseline testing, recommends a 3-minute Zone Pulse before each training day, and then guides users through Capacity Gym and Reasoning Gym using horizontal and vertical transfer principles.

Capacity Gym trains the run-time control system through n-back and relational n-back tasks, while Reasoning Gym applies that control to relation matching, constraint solving, must-follow reasoning, and logical inference. Tracker lets users compare pre- and post-training scores and monitor applied intelligence, resilience, and AI-use effects over time. Manual Mode is also available for users who want to explore and practise the games independently.