Putting brain training to the test

Adrian M. Owen (), Adam Hampshire, Jessica A. Grahn, Robert Stenton, Said Dajani, Alistair S. Burns, Robert J. Howard and Clive G. Ballard
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Adrian M. Owen: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK
Adam Hampshire: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK
Jessica A. Grahn: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK
Robert Stenton: King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Said Dajani: King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Alistair S. Burns: University of Manchester and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Robert J. Howard: King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Clive G. Ballard: King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK

Nature, 2010, vol. 465, issue 7299, 775-778

Abstract: A no trainer? Although the public spends millions of pounds per year on various 'brain training' programs, the efficacy and performance of these training regimes remain unclear. In a collaboration with the BBC science series Bang Goes The Theory, Adrian Owen and colleagues conducted a six-week trial of various online training regimes. And although they observed improvements on the specific tasks used for training, the authors concluded that any improvements failed to transfer to other untrained cognitive tasks.

Date: 2010
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