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Trial reportQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2021

Training executive functions using an adaptive procedure over 21 days (10 training sessions) and an active control group.

Martina De Lillo, Victoria Ea Brunsdon, Elisabeth Ef Bradford, Frank Gasking, Heather J Ferguson

Open access · hybridAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Martina De LilloSchool of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Kent, UK.
Victoria Ea BrunsdonSchool of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Kent, UK.
Elisabeth Ef BradfordSchool of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Kent, UK.
Frank GaskingSchool of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Kent, UK.
Heather J FergusonSchool of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Kent, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-4820
University of Kent · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The degree to which executive function (EF) abilities (including working memory [WM], inhibitory control [IC], and cognitive flexibility [CF]) can be enhanced through training is an important question; however, research in this area is inconsistent. Previous cognitive training studies largely agree that training leads to improvements in the trained task, but the generalisability of this improvement to other related tasks remains controversial. In this article, we present a pre-registered experiment that used an adaptive training procedure to examine whether EFs can be enhanced through cognitive training, and directly compared the efficacy and generalisability across sub-components of EF using training programmes that target WM, IC, or CF versus an active control group. Participants (

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Executive FunctionMemory, Short-TermControl GroupsHumanscognitive flexibilitycognitive trainingExecutive functionsinhibitory controltransfer effectsworking memory

Identifiers

PMID33656380
PMCPMC8358555
OpenAlexW3133034837

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