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Cognitive Training

An Overview of Features and Applications

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Editors:
  1. Tilo Strobach

    1. Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Julia Karbach

    1. University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany

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  • Provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the art cognitive training research for students, scientists and practitioners

  • Discusses theoretical models describing the mechanisms underlying training-induced changes

  • Includes contributions from a team of cutting edge internationally acclaimed experts

  • Offers an up-to-date assessment of one of the most debated issues in psychological research

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Tilo Strobach, Julia Karbach
    Pages 1-8

  3. Basic Concepts and Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Methods and Designs

      • Florian Schmiedek
      Pages 11-23

    3. New Directions in Training Designs

      • Aaron Cochrane, C. Shawn Green
      Pages 25-40

    4. Theoretical Models of Training and Transfer Effects

      • Niels A. Taatgen
      Pages 41-54

    5. Statistical Modeling of Latent Change

      • Tanja Könen, Max Auerswald
      Pages 55-68

    6. Neuroplasticity

      • Elisabeth Wenger, Simone Kühn
      Pages 69-83

    7. Cognitive Plasticity and Transcranial Electrical Stimulation

      • Elizabeth M. Byrne, Camilla L. Nord, Joni Holmes
      Pages 85-105

    8. Individual Differences in Cognitive Training Research

      • Benjamin Katz, Masha R. Jones, Priti Shah, Martin Buschkuehl, Susanne M. Jaeggi
      Pages 107-123

  4. Plasticity in Different Age Groups

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Cognitive Training in Childhood and Adolescence

      • M. Rosario Rueda, Lina M. Cómbita, Joan P. Pozuelos
      Pages 127-139

    3. Cognitive Training Across the Adult Lifespan

      • Sabrina Guye, Christina Röcke, Susan Mérillat, Claudia C. von Bastian, Mike Martin
      Pages 141-152

  5. Plasticity of Different Cognitive Domains

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Working Memory Training

      • Tanja Könen, Tilo Strobach, Julia Karbach
      Pages 155-167

    3. Episodic Memory Training

      • Elisabeth Wenger, Yana Fandakova, Yee Lee Shing
      Pages 169-184

    4. Prospective Memory Training

      • Sharda Umanath, Joan Toglia, Francis Anderson, Erin Foster, Mark A. McDaniel
      Pages 185-198

    5. Executive Function Training

      • Julia Karbach, Jutta Kray
      Pages 199-212

  6. Multidomain Trainings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Action Video Game Training and Its Effects on Perception and Attentional Control

      • Benoit Bediou, Daphne Bavelier, C. Shawn Green
      Pages 215-228
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About this book

The second edition of this book brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review the current knowledge regarding the effectiveness of training interventions designed to improve cognitive functions in different target populations. Since the publication of the first volume, the field of cognitive research has rapidly evolved. There is substantial evidence that cognitive and physical training can improve cognitive performance, but these benefits seem to vary as a function of the type and the intensity of interventions and the way training-induced gains are measured and analyzed. This book will address the new topics in psychological research and aims to resolve some of the currently debated issues. 

This book offers a comprehensive overview of empirical findings and methodological approaches of cognitive training research in different cognitive domains (memory, executive functions, etc.), types of training (working memory training, video game training, physical training, etc.), age groups (from children to young and older adults), target populations (children with developmental disorders, aging workers, MCI patients etc.), settings (laboratory-based studies, applied studies in clinical and educational settings), and methodological approaches (behavioral studies, neuroscientific studies). Chapters feature theoretical models that describe the mechanisms underlying training-induced cognitive and neural changes.


Cognitive Training: An Overview of Features and Applications, Second Edition will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, students, and professors in the fields of psychology and neuroscience.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Tilo Strobach

  • University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany

    Julia Karbach

About the editors

Tilo Strobach finished his doctoral degree at Humboldt University of Berlin. After that, he held postdoc positions at this university and at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. Currently, Tilo Strobach is full professor for cognitive psychology at the Medical School Hamburg. His research focuses on the analysis of cognitive plasticity as a result of training (e.g., video-game, dual-task, working memory, and task-switching training) and cognitive aging. Furthermore, he aims at specifying the cognitive processing architecture in situations that demand executive functions as well as the perception of complex objects.


Julia Karbach completed her PhD on the lifespan plasticity of cognitive development in 2008. She held positions at Saarland University and at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Since 2017, she serves as full professor for Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Her research focuses on neurocognitive development and plasticity across the lifespan. She currently investigates individual differences in executive control training (working memory, inhibition, flexibility) and physical training across a wide range of ages and populations (children, older adults, patients with cognitive impairments).



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