A Window of Opportunity for Cognitive Training in Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: In the current study, we investigated windows for enhanced learning of cognitive skills during adolescence. Six hundred thirty-three participants (11-33 years old) were divided into four age groups, and each participant was randomly allocated to one of three training groups. Each training group completed up to 20 days of online training in numerosity discrimination (i.e., discriminating small from large numbers of objects), relational reasoning (i.e., detecting abstract relationships between groups of items), or face perception (i.e., identifying differences in faces). Training yielded some improvement in performance on the numerosity-discrimination task, but only in older adolescents or adults. In contrast, training in relational reasoning improved performance on that task in all age grou

SUBMITTER: Knoll LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5221734 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature