Working Memory Training Does Not Improve Performance on Measures of Intelligence or Other Measures of “Far Transfer”: Evidence From a Meta-Analytic Review

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 512-534

  Melby Lervåg, Monica ^a   Redick, Thomas S ^b   Hulme, Charles ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

meta analysis; training; transfer; working memory

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE REMEDIATION THERAPY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COGNITIVE REMEDIATION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84979988410     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691616635612     Document Type: Article

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