The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.

E Bialystok - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some
extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep …

[HTML][HTML] Conclusions about interventions, programs, and approaches for improving executive functions that appear justified and those that, despite much hype, do not

A Diamond, DS Ling - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The 'Executive Functions'(EFs) of inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive
flexibility enable us to think before we act, resist temptations or impulsive reactions, stay …

Review of the evidence on, and fundamental questions about, efforts to improve executive functions, including working memory

A Diamond, DS Ling - Cognitive and working memory training …, 2020 - books.google.com
Review of the evidence on, and fundamental questions about, efforts to improve executive
functions, including working memory Page 166 8 Review of the Evidence on, and Fundamental …

Working memory training does not improve performance on measures of intelligence or other measures of “far transfer” evidence from a meta-analytic review

M Melby-Lervåg, TS Redick… - Perspectives on …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
It has been claimed that working memory training programs produce diverse beneficial
effects. This article presents a meta-analysis of working memory training studies (with a …

Neurocognitive architecture of working memory

J Eriksson, EK Vogel, A Lansner, F Bergström… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
A crucial role for working memory in temporary information processing and guidance of
complex behavior has been recognized for many decades. There is emerging consensus …

A meta-analysis on the relation between fluid intelligence and reading/mathematics: Effects of tasks, age, and social economics status.

P Peng, T Wang, CC Wang, X Lin - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
This study aimed to determine the relations between fluid intelligence (Gf) and
reading/mathematics and possible moderators. A meta-analysis of 680 studies involving 793 …

Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory: a meta-analysis

J Au, E Sheehan, N Tsai, GJ Duncan… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2015 - Springer
Working memory (WM), the ability to store and manipulate information for short periods of
time, is an important predictor of scholastic aptitude and a critical bottleneck underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Working memory training involves learning new skills

SE Gathercole, DL Dunning, J Holmes… - Journal of memory and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a new framework characterizing training-induced changes in WM as the
acquisition of novel cognitive routines akin to learning a new skill. Predictions were tested in …

Working memory and second language comprehension and production: A meta-analysis

JA Linck, P Osthus, JT Koeth, MF Bunting - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2014 - Springer
Although working memory (WM) figures centrally in many theories of second language (L2)
proficiency development and processing, some have argued that the importance of WM is …

[HTML][HTML] The positive aspects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a qualitative investigation of successful adults with ADHD

JA Sedgwick, A Merwood, P Asherson - ADHD Attention Deficit and …, 2019 - Springer
The behavioural characteristics of ADHD do not exist in binary form (ie normal vs.
abnormal); instead, they exist on a spectrum or continuum. This implies that some aspects of …