It has been claimed that working memory training programs produce diverse beneficial
effects. This article presents a meta-analysis of working memory training studies (with a …

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 …

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 …

The possible cognitive benefits of working memory training programs have been the subject
of intense interest and controversy. Recently two meta-analyses have claimed that working …

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both
reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers …

Blockade of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) produces behavior in healthy
people that is similar to the psychotic symptoms and cognitive deficits of schizophrenia and …

Jaeggi and her colleagues claimed that they were able to improve fluid intelligence by
training working memory. Subjects who trained their working memory on a dual n-back task …

Our recent meta-analysis concluded that training on working memory can improve
performance on tests of fluid intelligence (Au et al., Psychon Bull Rev, 22 (2), 366-377 …

The impact of working memory training on a broad set of transfer tasks was examined. Each
of three groups of participants trained one specific functional category of working memory …

Short-term adaptive cognitive training based on the n-back task is reported to increase
scores on individual ability tests, but the key question of whether such increases generalize …