Off-training cognitive transfer shows gains in working memory and focused attention for the ACT group only, with no significant group-by-session interactions¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2025 · checked against its sources 2026-10-26 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? On lab-based off-training tasks, both groups improved in phonological short-term memory, and no group-by-session interaction reached significance, indicating improvements were not statistically specific to the auditory-cognitive training condition. → Ockelmann 2025 q3 i2 In post-hoc simple-effects analyses, working memory (d = 0.58) and focused attention (d = 0.55) gains were significant only in the experimental group, and divided attention did not change in either group. → Ockelmann 2025 (2)

Evidence¶

Ockelmann 2025¶

Ockelmann, J., Scherpiet, S., Stropahl, M. & Giroud, N. (2025). Personalized and gamified auditory-cognitive training improves naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults with hearing loss. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00369-4

q3 · i? · causal · r2

GLMM analysis of lab-conducted off-training tasks completed by both groups pre- to post-training. Across-group improvements appeared for phonological short-term memory, working memory, and focused attention, but "no significant group session inter- actions were detected", so the gains were not statistically specific to ACT; divided attention showed no change (d = 0.08 overall).

"Across all cognitive domains, no significant group session inter- actions were detected, indicating improvements were not statistically spe- cific to the auditory-cognitive training condition."

Ockelmann 2025 (2)¶

Ockelmann, J., Scherpiet, S., Stropahl, M. & Giroud, N. (2025). Personalized and gamified auditory-cognitive training improves naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults with hearing loss. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00369-4

q3 · i2 · causal · r2

Post-hoc simple-effects analysis of the same off-training lab battery: experimental-group gains in working memory ("d = 0.58") and focused attention (d = 0.55), while the control group's WM change was non-significant and its focused-attention gain a non-significant trend.

"For WM and FA, significant gains were observed only in the experimental group (WM: β = 10.73, 95% CI [4.54, 16.91], p = 0.001, d = 0.58; FA: β = 15.27, 95% CI [5.89, 24.65], p = 0.002, d = 0.55)"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Attention — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Gamified personalized auditory-cognitive training improves naturalistic speech-in-noise comprehension in older adults with hearing loss relative to an active control group — related
• On-training cognitive performance improves across all four trained domains after ACT, with large effect sizes — related
• Multitasking training transferred to untrained working memory and sustained attention tasks in older adults, unlike control training — related
• Cognitive training gains are maintained or further enhanced at two-month follow-up — related
• Computerized cognitive training produces a small but statistically significant improvement in cognitive performance in healthy older adults — a broader claim this one bears on
• CCT shows no significant effects on executive functions or attention in healthy older adults — related