I get the digest so I didn't want to go to great trouble to trim out and only leave the target posting, so I apologize for that.
I only want to draw attention to this article in the latest issue of Making Working Memory Work: A Meta-Analysis of Executive-Control and Working Memory Training in Older Adults Julia Karbach and Paul Verhaeghen The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0956797614548725 Psychological Science published online 8 October 2014 Here is the abstract: This meta-analysis examined the effects of process-based executive-function and working memory training (49 articles, 61 independent samples) in older adults (> 60 years). The interventions resulted in significant effects on performance on the trained task and near-transfer tasks; significant results were obtained for the net pretest-to-posttest gain relative to active and passive control groups and for the net effect at posttest relative to active and passive control groups. Fartransfer effects were smaller than near-transfer effects but were significant for the net pretest-to-posttest gain relative to passive control groups and for the net gain at posttest relative to both active and passive control groups. We detected marginally significant differences in training-induced improvements between working memory and executive-function training, but no differences between the training-induced improvements observed in older adults and younger adults, between the benefits associated with adaptive and nonadaptive training, or between the effects in active and passive control conditions. Gains did not vary with total training time. I thought, as Mike as noted, that the consensus of psychological scientists was that such brain game training is bogus. However, this article suggests otherwise, at least in terms of specific processes such as working memory. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 [email protected] ________________________________________ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=39694 or send a blank email to leave-39694-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
