PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cognitive Training, Mental Chronometry, Working Memory
16 Sep 2014
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Reasoning=no difference between pre and post training. Verbal short term memory=no difference between pre and post training. Spatial memory=no difference between pre and post training: nobody is finding any improvement in these cognitive tasks; no difference in reasoning, verbal short term memory, spatial memory, no benefits in the 10000 participants studied. Study 2: left graph: tasks they were trained on, right graph: tasks they were not trained on, findings: They were getting better at the tasks that they trained on (practiced) They were not getting better on the tasks that they did not get trained on. How to train your brain: various ways we can improve by practicing: practice one task and it makes you better on. : we need to find task that we can generalize improve skills that could help us on real world. 6 weeks training: no body showing any improved task when they were not trained.
