Cognitive Training Transfer Claims: Systematic Review of Far Transfer Across Twenty Years

Authors

  • Leandre Bertranet Department of Cognitive Psychology, Argonne Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Sainte-Menehould, France Author
  • Ieva-Marija Ivanauskaite-Pet Centre for Learning Sciences, Birzai Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Birzai, Lithuania Author
  • Imre-Peter Csuvar Department of Statistical Methods, Sarret Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Szeghalom, Hungary Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22678070

Keywords:

Cognitive Training Transfer Claims; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurofeedback; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

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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2024-06-30