How useful is executive control training? Age differences in near and far transfer of task-switching training.

By J. Karbach, Jutta Kray. Developmental Science, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. (2012, background): “Gains in the range of 0.5 to 1 SD have been found for transfer of task switching training in children, young adults, and the elderly (Karbach & Kray, 2009).”
Smartphones and Cognition: A Review of Research Exploring the Links between Mobile Technology Habits and Cognitive Functioning (2017, background): “…the types of difficult pairings [like those used as the basis of training in studies showing beneficial effects of practice with divided attention; e.g., Dux et al. (2009), Karbach and Kray (2009)] from those who are just prone to distracting themselves with secondary sources of input (like music).”
Activities and Programs That Improve Children’s Executive Functions (2012, background): “Older children (9-year-olds), however, who received computerbased task-switching training improved in both task switching and inhibition (Karbach & Kray, 2009).”
A Cognitive Model of Psychological Resilience (2016, background): “…research demonstrating that cognitive control or executive control functions can be trained with cognitive tasks requiring memory updating (Jaeggi, Buschkuehl, Jonides, & Perrig, 2008; Owens, Koster, & Derakshan, 2013), task switching (Karbach & Kray, 2009), or working memory (Klingberg, 2010).”
Working memory training does not improve intelligence in healthy young adults (2012, background): “…possible modification of cognitive abilities in young adults, when general cognitive abilities are less malleable compared to childhood and aging periods were considerably fewer (Jaeggi, Buschkuehl, Jonides, & Perrig, 2008; Jaeggi et al., 2010; Karbach & Kray, 2009; Schmiedek et al., 2010).”
Is working memory training effective? (2012, methodology): “Other cognitive training methods such as dual-task performance (Bherer et al., 2005), task-switching (Karbach & Kray, 2009), and practice on attention tasks (Rueda, Rothbard, McCandliss, Saccomanno , & Posner, 2005; Sohlberg, McLaughlin, Pavese, Heidrich, & Posner, 2000) are not directly discussed.”
Distinct transfer effects of training different facets of working memory capacity (2013, background): “…increased by computer-based training of WMC (for a review see Buschkuehl & Jaeggi, 2010 ; see also Borella, Carretti, Riboldi, & De Beni, 2010; Jaeggi, Buschkuehl, Jonides, & Perrig, 2008; Jaeggi et al., 2010; Karbach & Kray, 2009; Klingberg et al., 2005; Schmiedek, Lövden, & Lindenber ger, 2010 ).”
Executive Function: Implications for Education. NCER 2017-2000. (2016, background): “Results confirmed effects of training on switching in all groups and also transfer to working memory and fluid intelligence (Karbach and Kray 2009).”
Executive Functions (2012, positive): “For example, training task switching (which arguably requires all three core EFs) transferred not only to an untrained task-switching task, but also to inhibition (Stroop interference), verbal and nonverbal WM, and reasoning (Karbach & Kray 2009).”
Training attentional control and working memory - Is younger, better? (2012, methodology): “…34 (4 different groups, received different amounts of training) WM – vis-spat dual n-back task 1 ANOVA; ANCOVA RPM (reas) (y); BOMAT (reas) (y) None 0.54 0.01 Karbach and Kray (2009) TD 8–10, 18– 26, 62–76 Performed same sorting task, but without have to switch sort criteria 4 sessions c. 1 per…”
Clearing the garden-path: improving sentence processing through cognitive control training (2014, background): “…generalise) across domains to novel performance measures that also rely on EF, including intelligence, text comprehension, task-switching and interferenceresolution tasks (e.g., Chein & Morrison, 2010; Jaeggi, Buschkuehl, Jonides, & Perrig, 2008; Karbach & Kray, 2009; cf. Redick et al., 2012).”
Plasticity of Brain Networks in a Randomized Intervention Trial of Exercise Training in Older Adults (2010, neutral): “, 2009), or process specific cognitive training programs for working memory and multi-tasking (Erickson et al., 2007; Dahlin et al., 2008; Karbach and Kray, 2009).”