Cogmed training: Let's be realistic about intervention research

Cogmed Working Memory Training

Cogmed Working Memory Training

Cogmed WM training: reviewing the reviews.

Does Cogmed working-memory training (CWMT) work? Independent groups of reviewers have come to what appears to be starkly different conclusions to this question, causing somewhat of a debate within scientific and popular media. Here, various studies, meta-analyses, and reviews of the Cogmed research literature will be considered to provide an overview of our present understanding regarding the e...

Cogmed working memory training: Does the evidence support the claims?

Cogmed working memory training is sold as a tool for improving cognitive abilities, such as attention and reasoning. At present, this program ismarketed to schools as ameans of improving underperforming students’ scholastic performance, and is also available at clinical practices as a treatment for ADHD. We review research conductedwithCogmed software andhighlight several concerns regardingmeth...

Being Realistic about Reasons

In my first lecture I listed seven questions about reasons that seemed to require answers. These were: Relational Character: Reasons are reasons for an agent. How is this relational character to be understood? Ground of Truth: In virtue of what are claims about reasons true, when they are true? Does the idea that claims about reasons are true or false, independent of our opinions about them, an...