TY  - JOUR
A1  - Könen, Tanja
A1  - Karbach, Julia
T1  - The benefits of looking at intraindividual dynamics in cognitive training data
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - Over the last decade, the prospect of improving or maintaining cognitive functioning has provoked a steadily increasing number of cognitive training studies. Central target populations are individuals at risk for a disadvantageous development, such as older adults exhibiting cognitive decline or children with learning impairments. They rely on cognitive resources to meet the challenges of an independent life in old age or requirements at school.
To support daily cognitive functioning, training outcomes need to generalize to other cognitive abilities. Such transfer effects are, however, highly discussed. For example, recent meta-analyses on working memory training differed in the conclusion on the presence (Au et al., 2015; Karbach and Verhaeghen, 2014) or absence of transfer effects (Melby-Lervåg and Hulme, 2013). Usually training-specific design factors such as type, intensity, duration, and feedback routines are discussed as reasons for such inconsistent findings. However, even individuals participating in exactly the same training regime highly differ in their training outcomes. We argue that it is time to study the individual development during trainings to understand these differential outcomes. It is time to have a closer look at the intraindividual training data.
KW  - working memory
KW  - training
KW  - intraindividual variability
KW  - micro-longitudinal
KW  - within-person
KW  - trajectories
KW  - fluctuations
KW  - learning disabilities
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51907
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-519073
SN  - 1664-1078
N1  - Copyright © 2015 Könen and Karbach. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
VL  - 6
IS  - Art. 615
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -