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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 6/2014

01-11-2014 | Editorial

New directions in cognitive training: on methods, transfer, and application

Auteurs: Torsten Schubert, Tilo Strobach, Julia Karbach

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2014

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Research on cognitive interventions and training-induced changes in brain and behavior has been of growing interest in psychology and neuroscience over the last decade (for reviews see Hertzog, Kramer, Wilson, & Lindenberger, 2009; Lustig, Shah, Seidler, & Reuter-Lorenz, 2009; Chein & Morrison, 2010; for meta-analyses see Karbach & Verhaeghen, 2014; Melby-Lervag & Hulme, 2013). The interest in these studies is to a large extent related to empirical reports and observations, which suggest that appropriate training interventions can produce broad learning effects and may generalize to other non-trained tasks (e.g., Bergman-Nutley et al., 2011; Green & Bavelier, 2003; Jaeggi, Buschkuehl, Jonides, & Perrig, 2008; Klingberg, 2010; Strobach, Frensch, & Schubert, 2012, and many others). These training and transfer effects are often observed in studies using process-based training; this training is based on the assumption that practice and learning may improve relevant processes in one task situation and the improvement may generalize to another task situation if there is a process overlap between situations (Schmidt & Bjork, 1992; Taatgen, 2013). This kind of training must be distinguished from (rather traditional) strategy-based training approaches, which usually focus on the training of task-specific procedures and strategies improving the performance in the given task without transferring broadly to other tasks (i.e., Klauer, 1989; Kliegl & Baltes, 1987; Kliegl, Smith, & Baltes, 1990; Rebok, Carlson, & Langbaum, 2007). …
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Metagegevens
Titel
New directions in cognitive training: on methods, transfer, and application
Auteurs
Torsten Schubert
Tilo Strobach
Julia Karbach
Publicatiedatum
01-11-2014
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2014
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0619-8

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