Placebo effects in cognitive training

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 27, 2016, Pages 7470-7474

  Foroughi, Cyrus K ^a   Monfort, Samuel S ^a   Paczynski, Martin ^a   McKnight, Patrick E ^a   Greenwood, P M ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain training; Cognitive training; Fluid intelligence; Placebo effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WORKING MEMORY; TEACHING;

COGNITION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; PLACEBO EFFECT; TEACHING;

EID: 84977517640     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601243113     Document Type: Article

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