Short- and long-term benefits of cognitive training.

ABSTRACT: Does cognitive training work? There are numerous commercial training interventions claiming to improve general mental capacity; however, the scientific evidence for such claims is sparse. Nevertheless, there is accumulating evidence that certain cognitive interventions are effective. Here we provide evidence for the effectiveness of cognitive (often called "brain") training. However, we demonstrate that there are important individual differences that determine training and transfer. We trained elementary and middle school children by means of a videogame-like working memory task. We found that only children who considerably improved on the training task showed a performance increase on untrained fluid intelligence tasks. This improvement was larger than the improvement of a control group w

SUBMITTER: Jaeggi SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3121868 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature