Neural Correlates of Cognitive Gains Induced by Commercially Available Cognitive Training Programs: A Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies.

ABSTRACT: Background: Commercial cognitive training programs are widely marketed as tools for enhancing cognitive performance, yet training-related task-related brain activation changes remain incompletely characterized. This preregistered meta-analysis aimed to synthesize evidence on whether commercially available cognitive training is associated with improvements in cognitive function and convergent alterations in task-related brain activation, and to explore factors that may moderate these effects. Methods: A multivariate meta-analysis was conducted on behavioral outcomes to estimate the overall effect of training on cognitive performance. Task-based neuroimaging findings were synthesized using a coordinate-based neuroimaging meta-analysis to identify consistent activation changes a

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12839008 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature