How to Play 20 Questions With Nature and Lose: Reflections on 100 Years of Brain-Training Research

摘要: Despite dozens of empirical studies and a growing body meta-analytic work, there is little consensus regarding the efficacy cognitive training. In this review, we examine why substantial corpus has failed to answer often-asked question, “Does training work?” We first define discuss general principles underlying interventions. Next, review historical interventions how findings from early work remain highly relevant for current cognitive-training research. highlight variety issues preventing real progress in understanding mechanisms training, including lack coherent theoretical framework guide research methodological across meta-analyses. Finally, suggestions correcting these are offered hope that might make greater next 100 y