Reliable gains? Evidence for substantially underpowered designs in studies of working memory training transfer to fluid intelligence
In recent years, cognitive scientists and commercial interests (e.g., Fit Brains, Lumosity) have focused research attention and financial resources on cognitive tasks, especially working memory tasks, to explore and exploit possible transfer effects to general cognitive abilities, such as fluid inte...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01589/full |