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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
Functional brain-imaging data document overlapping sites of activation in prefrontal cortex across memory tasks, suggesting that these tasks may share common executive components. We leveraged this evidence to develop a training regimen and a set of transfer tasks to examine the trainability of a putative executive-control process: interference resolution. Eight days of training on high-interference versions of three different working memory tasks increased the efficiency with which proactive interference was resolved on those particular tasks. Moreover, an improved ability to resolve interference was also transferred to different working memory, semantic memory, and episodic memory tasks, a demonstration of far-transfer effects from process-specific training. Participants trained with noninterference versions of the tasks did not exhibit transfer. We infer that the transfer we demonstrated resulted from increased efficiency of the interference-resolution process. Therefore, this aspect of executive control is plastic and adaptive, and can be improved by training.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1467-9280
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
881-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-6-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Aptitude, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Internal-External Control, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Memory, Short-Term, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Paired-Associate Learning, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Pattern Recognition, Visual, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Practice (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Proactive Inhibition, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Problem Solving, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Retention (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Transfer (Psychology), pubmed-meshheading:18947353-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Gaining control: training executive function and far transfer of the ability to resolve interference.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Retracted Publication, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural