Cognitive Training Transfer Claims: Systematic Review of Far Transfer Across Twenty Years
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22678070Keywords:
Cognitive Training Transfer Claims; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurofeedback; Evidence synthesis; Research methodologyAbstract
Cognitive Training Transfer Claims has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community can now
investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for cognitive training transfer claims, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on
where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective,
context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.
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