Visuospatial processing is a key asset for thriving in health and natural sciences education
and practice. Two critical reasons for this importance are that (a) science phenomena are …

It has been suggested that diverse interventions applied within children's everyday contexts
have the potential to improve working memory (WM) and produce transfer to real-world skills …

In the last two decades, considerable efforts have been devoted to finding a way to enhance
cognitive function by cognitive training. To date, the attempt to boost broad cognitive …

A randomized controlled trial compared complex span and n-back training regimes to
investigate the generality of training benefits across materials and paradigms. The memory …

We have shown that a computer-based program that trains schoolchildren in cognitive tasks
that mainly tap working memory (WM), implemented by teachers and integrated into school …

Is the capacity of short-term memory fixed, or does it improve with practice? It is already
known that training on complex working memory tasks is more likely to transfer to untrained …

This study analyzed the potential transfer effects on reading comprehension skills of two
different training programs administered to 9-to 10-year-old children attending fourth grade …

Introduction Childhood inattention has been linked with poor academic outcomes, and
increased lifetime social, occupational and psychiatric morbidity. Children with an acquired …

Background There is international recognition of the need for creative, classroom-based
interventions to support children at risk of low academic achievement and well-being, due to …

There is growing interest in understanding what constrains transfer following working
memory (WM) training with recent studies investigating what limits transfer within and across …