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Title: Nearest transfer effects of working memory training: A comparison of two programs focused on working memory updating
Authors: Linares, Rocio
Borella, Erika
Lechuga, M. Teresa
Carretti, Barbara
Pelegrina, Santiago
Abstract: This study analyzed the mechanisms involved in possible transfer effects for two different working memory updating (WMU) training programs administered to young adults and based on two updating paradigms: n-back and arithmetical updating. The influence of practice distribution on transfer effects was also explored by including two training regimens: massed and spaced practice. Performance on different WMU tasks more or less structurally similar to the tasks used in the training was assessed to analyze the nearest transfer effects. Near and far transfer effects were tested using complex working memory (WM) and fluid intelligence tasks. The results showed that the WMU training produced gains in only some of the WMU tasks structurally similar to those used in the training, not in those lacking the same structure, or in WM or fluid intelligence tasks. These limited nearest transfer effects suggest that gains could be due to the acquisition of a specific strategy appropriate for the task during the training rather than to any improvement in the updating process per se. Performance did not differ depending on the training regimen.
Keywords: working memory
working memory updating
Training
Issue Date: 2019
metadata.dc.description.sponsorship: Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (PSI2016-80416-P) to Santiago Pelegrina and Mª Teresa Lechuga.
Publisher: Plos
Citation: Linares, R., Borella, E., Lechuga, M. T., Carretti, B., & Pelegrina, S. (2019). Nearest transfer effects of working memory training: A comparison of two programs focused on working memory updating. PloS one, 14(2), e0211321. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211321
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