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Cognitive Training in the Domain of Mathematics for Potentially Gifted Children in Primary School

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2022
This study examined auditive and visual working memory and metacognitive knowledge in 92 gifted children (aged between eight and twelve), utilising a pre-test-training-post-test design, known as the cognitive training design.
Mirjam G. J. de Vreeze-Westgeest   +1 more
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An evaluation of a working memory training scheme in older adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2013
Working memory is a cognitive process that is particularly vulnerable to decline with age. The current study sought to evaluate the efficacy of a working memory training scheme in improving memory in a group of older adults.
Laura Patricia McAvinue   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Working Memory Training and Speech in Noise Comprehension in Older Adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2016
Understanding speech in the presence of background sound can be challenging for older adults. Speech comprehension in noise appears to depend on working memory and executive-control processes (e.g., Heald & Nusbaum, 2014), and their augmentation through ...
Rachel V. Wayne   +4 more
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Development of a Memory Training Game [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents Megame [me-ga-me], a multiplatform game for working memory training and assessment. Megame uses letters and words to amuse, train and assess memory capacity.
Jensen, Kristoffer, Valente, Andrea
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The effectiveness of working memory training with individuals with intellectual disabilities – a meta-analytic review

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Working memory training has been increasingly popular in the last year. Previous studies has shown that children with intellectual disabilities have low working memory capacity and therefore have a great potential for improvement by this type of ...
Henrik eDanielsson   +5 more
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Dorsolateral Prefrontal Functional Connectivity Predicts Working Memory Training Gains

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2021
Background: Normal aging is associated with working memory decline. A decrease in working memory performance is associated with age-related changes in functional activation patterns in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC).
Sofia Faraza   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Working memory training and language outcomes in children with cochlear implants

open access: yesThe Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2018
Objective The aim of this study is to provide information on whether improvements in language skills might be achieved by improving working memory capacity in cochlear-implanted children.
Azza Samy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

BRAINSTORMING: A study protocol for a randomised double-blind clinical trial to assess the impact of concurrent brain stimulation (tDCS) and working memory training on cognitive performance in Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)

open access: yesBMC Psychology, 2020
Background Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) admissions have an incidence of 385 per 100,000 of the population in the UK, and as brain injury often involves the frontal networks, cognitive domains affected are likely to be executive control, working memory ...
Sara Assecondi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Visual Working Memory With Training on a Tactile Orientation Sequence Task in Humans

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
Working memory refers to the cognitive capacity to temporarily store and manipulate information from multiple sensory domains. Recent studies have shown that cognitive training can improve performance in both visual working memory and tactile working ...
Ting Guo   +9 more
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The Effects of Emotional Working Memory Training on Trait Anxiety

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
BackgroundTrait anxiety is a pervasive tendency to attend to and experience fears and worries to a disproportionate degree, across various situations. Decreased vulnerability to trait anxiety has been linked to having higher working memory capacity and ...
Gabrielle C. Veloso   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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