A growing body of literature shows that one's working memory (WM) capacity can be
expanded through targeted training. Given the established relationship between WM and …

Can cognitive abilities such as reasoning be improved through working memory training?
This question is still highly controversial, with prior studies providing contradictory findings …

Working memory (WM) is a cognitive system that strongly relates to a person's ability to
reason with novel information and direct attention to goal-relevant information. Due to the …

Seventeen years and hundreds of studies after the first journal article on working memory
training was published, evidence for the efficacy of working memory training is still wanting …

Recent studies have reported improvements in a variety of cognitive functions following sole
working memory (WM) training. In spite of the emergence of several successful training …

Working memory (WM) is the limited capacity storage system involved in the maintenance
and manipulation of information over short periods of time. WM plays a key role in a wide …

Working memory (WM) is one of our core cognitive functions, allowing us to keep information
in mind for shorter periods of time and then work with this information. It is the gateway that …

The efficacy of working memory (WM) training has been a controversial and hotly debated
issue during the past years. Despite a large number of training studies and several meta …

Numerous recent studies seem to provide evidence for the general intellectual benefits of
working memory training. In reviews of the training literature, Shipstead, Redick, and Engle …

Working memory (WM) training has recently become a topic of intense interest and
controversy. Although several recent studies have reported near-and far-transfer effects as a …