Working memory training does not improve intelligence in healthy young adults

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Working memory training and interpreting interactions in intelligence interventions (2015, background): “…is on WM training's potential transfer effects on intelligence — indeed, this journal has published numerous studies examining the efficacy of WM training to improve intelligence (Chooi & Thompson, 2012; Colom et al., 2013; Jaeggi et al., 2010; Sprenger et al., 2013; Stephenson & Halpern, 2013).”
Training working memory: Limits of transfer (2013, background): “(2013; see also Chooi and Thompson (2012) and Thompson et al. (2013), for example, failed to replicate findings reported by Jaeggi et al.”
Adaptive n-back training does not improve fluid intelligence at the construct level: Gains on individual tests suggest that training may enhance visuospatial processing (2013, methodology): “The same lack of change was noted by Chooi and Thompson (2012) and by Jaeggi et al. (2010) for the operation span task, as well as by Redick et al. (2012) for the symmetry and running span tasks.”