Cognitive Training An Overview of Features and Applications
This book brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review the current knowledge regarding the effectiveness of training interventions designed to improve cognitive functions in different target populations. There is
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Cognitive Training An Overview of Features and Applications
Cognitive Training
Tilo Strobach • Julia Karbach Editors
Cognitive Training An Overview of Features and Applications
Editors Tilo Strobach Department of Psychology Medical School Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
Julia Karbach Department of Psychology Goethe-University Frankfurt Frankfurt / Main, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-42660-0 ISBN 978-3-319-42662-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42662-4
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Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................................... Tilo Strobach and Julia Karbach Part I
1
Basic Concepts and Methodology
Methods and Designs ...................................................................................... Florian Schmiedek
9
Theoretical Models of Training and Transfer Effects ................................. Niels A. Taatgen
19
Part II
Plasticity in Different Age Groups
Childhood and Adolescence ........................................................................... M. Rosario Rueda, Lina M. Cómbita, and Joan P. Pozuelos
33
Adult lifespan .................................................................................................. Sabrina Guye, Christina Röcke, Susan Mérillat, Claudia C. von Bastian, and Mike Martin
45
Part III
Plasticity of Different Cognitive Domains
Working Memory ............................................................................................ Tanja Könen, Tilo Strobach, and Julia Karbach
59
Episodic Memory ............................................................................................ Elisabeth Wenger and Yee Lee Shing
69
Prospective Memory .........................
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