Divergent Research Methods Limit Understanding of Working Memory Training.

ABSTRACT: Working memory training has been a hot topic over the last decade. Although studies show benefits in trained and untrained tasks as a function of training, there is an ongoing debate on the efficacy of working memory training. There have been numerous meta-analyses put forth to the field, some finding overall broad transfer effects while others do not. However, discussion of this research typically overlooks specific qualities of the training and transfer tasks. As such, there has been next to no discussion in the literature on what training and transfer tasks features are likely to mediate training outcomes. To address this gap, here, we characterized the broad diversity of features employed in N-back training tasks and outcome measures in published working memory training studies. Extant

SUBMITTER: Pergher V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8336689 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature