L D Gómez-Rocha, A M Ospina-Romero
Promotion of self-efficacy in mothers with infants discharged from neonatal intensive care units
Enfermeria intensiva
working memory wm capacity highly correlated general cognitive ability proven excellent predictor academic success given wm improved training aim test whether wm training benefited academic abilities elementaryschool children examined 28 participants mean age 83 years sd 04 pretesttrainingposttestfollowup design 14 training sessions children either performed adaptive wm training training group n 14 nonadaptive lowlevel training active control group n 14 tasks pretest posttest followup 3 months posttest included neurocognitive test battery wm task switching inhibition standardized tests math reading abilities adaptive wm training resulted larger training gains nonadaptive lowlevel training benefits induced adaptive training transferred untrained wm task standardized test reading ability task switching inhibition performance standardized math test transfer untrained wm task maintained 3 months analysis individual differences revealed compensatory effects larger gains children lower wm reading scores pretest training transfer effects discussed background cognitive processing resulting wm span training nature intervention