Working memory training in healthy young adults: Support for the null from a randomized comparison to active and passive control groups.

ABSTRACT: Training of working memory as a method of increasing working memory capacity and fluid intelligence has received much attention in recent years. This burgeoning field remains highly controversial with empirically-backed disagreements at all levels of evidence, including individual studies, systematic reviews, and even meta-analyses. The current study investigated the effect of a randomized six week online working memory intervention on untrained cognitive abilities in a community-recruited sample of healthy young adults, in relation to both a processing speed training active control condition, as well as a no-contact control condition. Results of traditional null hypothesis significance testing, as well as Bayesian factor analyses, revealed support for the null hypothesis across all cognit

SUBMITTER: Clark CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5448748 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature