Trial reportNature neuroscience2024
Cognitive control training with domain-general response inhibition does not change children's brains or behavior.
Trial report in Nature neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Executive functions as a transdiagnostic endophenotype in developmental psychopathology.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
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- Measuring working memory control: validation of a paradigm combining maintenance and inhibition.Cognitive processing · 2026Article
- Reading Disabilities With and Without Co-Occurring ADHD: No Evidence for Additive Impact on Reading Skills.Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading · 2026Article
- The effect of electronic cognitive training with bilateral eye movements and response inhibition on vocational college students' anxiety in a pilot study.Discover mental health · 2026Article
- Adaptive habits: understanding executive function and its development.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
- Cognitive flexibility versus stability via activation-based and weight-based adaptations.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Cognitive training shapes brain plasticity and schematic representations.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2025Review
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- Mapping Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Repetitive Negative Thinking Among Non-Western Undergraduate Students: A Network Analysis.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- Dedifferentiation and Transfer in Executive Function and Math Ability Following a Five-Year Abacus Training in Schoolchildren.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Parental reflective functioning and internalizing symptoms predict altruistic prosocial behaviour in children.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Structural brain basis of latent factors of executive functions in childhood.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Cognitive control and metacognitive awareness: do they shape academic achievement in university students?Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Interplay between preclinical indices of obesity and neural signatures of fluid intelligence in youth.Communications biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Cognitive control is required to organize thoughts and actions and is critical for the pursuit of long-term goals. Childhood cognitive control relates to other domains of cognitive functioning and predicts later-life success and well-being. In this study, we used a randomized controlled trial to test whether cognitive control can be improved through a pre-registered 8-week intervention in 235 children aged 6-13 years targeting response inhibition and whether this leads to changes in multiple behavioral and neural outcomes compared to a response speed training. We show long-lasting improvements of closely related measures of cognitive control at the 1-year follow-up; however, training had no impact on any behavioral outcomes (decision-making, academic achievement, mental health, fluid reasoning and creativity) or neural outcomes (task-dependent and intrinsic brain function and gray and white matter structure). Bayesian analyses provide strong evidence of absent training effects. We conclude that targeted training of response inhibition does little to change children's brains or their behavior.
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