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Gold-standard cognitive training intervention design

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Drawing on recent reviews of cognitive training, the article states that "a gold standard cognitive intervention should (1) employ outcome measures with a clear targeted theoretical construct; (2) minimize potential placebo effects... by including an active control group", (3) randomize participants, and (4) restrict transfer tasks to theoretically related ones. The study applied these by using a single-task active control, randomization, and a factor-analytically grounded transfer battery.

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  • Cognitive training interventions should include active controls, randomization, theory-targeted outcomes, and related transfer tasks: Drawing on recent reviews of cognitive training, the article states that "a gold standard cognitive intervention should (1) employ outcome measures with a clear targeted theoretical construct; (2) minimize potential placebo effects... by including an active control group", (3) randomize participants, and (4) restrict transfer tasks to theoretically related ones. The study applied these by using a single-task active control, randomization, and a factor-analytically grounded transfer battery. (Angela D. Bender et al. (2017))

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  • Angela D. Bender, Hannah L. Filmer, Claire K. Naughtin and Paul E. Dux. (2017). Dynamic, continuous multitasking training leads to task-specific improvements but does not transfer across action selection tasks. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-017-0015-4
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title Gold-standard cognitive training intervention design
description Drawing on recent reviews of cognitive training, the article states that "a gold standard cognitive intervention should (1) employ outcome measures with a clear targeted theoretical construct; (2) minimize potential placebo effects...
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