Is working memory training effective?

By Zach Shipstead, Thomas S. Redick, R. Engle. Psychological bulletin, 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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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): “A study by Chooi and Thompson (2012) was aimed at overcoming some of the reservations enumerated by Shipstead et al. (2012) and used several measures of intelligence (crystallizedverbal, spatial, and speed) for estimating changes after training on the dual n-back task modeled from Jaeggi et al.…”
Working Memory Training Does Not Improve Performance on Measures of Intelligence or Other Measures of “Far Transfer”: Evidence from a Meta-Analytic Review (2016, neutral): “*Klingberg, T., Forssberg, H., & Westerberg, H. (2002). Training of working memory in children with ADHD.”
Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation (2013, methodology): “, 2010), and two recent reviews documenting the ineffectiveness of working memory training (Melby-Lervåg & Hulme, 2013; Shipstead et al., 2012), we ran follow-up analyses of studies in the executive-function domain using subskill as a moderator.”
Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education (2013, neutral): “point that the case has not yet been completely made (e.g., Jaeggi and Buschkuehl 2013; Shipstead et al. 2012).”
Working memory training and interpreting interactions in intelligence interventions (2015, methodology): “Certainly, the five studies highlighted here are not representative of the entire literature of WM training studies and intelligence transfer (for review, see Haier, 2014;Melby-Lervåg & Hulme, 2013; Shipstead et al., 2012).”
Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory: a meta-analysis (2014, neutral): “While this does control for important test – retest practice effects, it does not control for potential motivational or Hawthorne effects associated with being enrolled in an intervention study (Shipstead, Redick, & Engle, 2012).”