Working memory training

Working memory training is intended to improve a person's working memory.

Version

v1 · 2026-09-28 · History

Domain-specific #

12914

Domain group

Social Sciences

Origin domain

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences

Subdomains

Cognitive Training, Cognitive Psychology → Psychology & Behavioral Sciences

Core Idea

Working memory training is treated here as the recurring socialscienceshumanitiesarts identity summarized by this source-grounded definition: Working memory training is intended to improve a person's working memory. Working memory training is intended to improve a person's working memory. Working memory is a central intellectual faculty, linked to IQ, ageing, and mental health. It has been claimed that working memory training programs are effective means, both for treating specific medical conditions associated with working memory deficit, and for general increase in cognitive capacity among healthy adults.

Scope of Application

• Strategies. More explicitly used strategies by the individual include rehearsal of material, chunking, pairing mental images with the material, mnemonics, and other meta-cognitive strategies.

• Training setup and evaluation. Holmes et al. used a nonword recall task, mazes memory task, listening recall, and the "odd one-out" task.

• Transfer effects. Overall, the pilot study concludes that working memory training in adult patients that have previously had a stroke can both improve their cognitive function as measured by neuropsychological tests as well.

• Transfer effects. Studies have also proven that working memory training can possibly help to improve deficits in working memory caused by anxiety and depression disorders, especially in adolescents.

• Transfer effects. Emotional stimuli was used as the best way to see results because of the major influence anxiety and depression disorders have on emotional regulation.

Clarity

A clear use of Working memory training names the carrier, the operative relation, and the conditions under which the source treats the identity as present. The minimal definition is Working memory training is intended to improve a person's working memory. The strongest recognition evidence in the frozen account is: Studies can take place in the lab, or even at home with researchers keeping in touch through weekly phone calls.

Manages Complexity

Working memory training compresses multiple socialscienceshumanitiesarts details into a stable diagnostic relation. The source shows both the central mechanism—practicing these tasks demands numerous processes such as encoding, inhibition, maintenance, manipulation, shifting and controlling attention, and the ability to manage two tasks simultaneously or dividing attention.—and the practical consequence—overall, the pilot study concludes that working memory training in adult patients that have previously had a stroke can both.

Abstract Reasoning

1. Type the carrier. Identify the socialscienceshumanitiesarts entities to which the claim applies.
2. State the relation. Use the source-grounded identity: Working memory training is intended to improve a person's working memory.
3. Check operation and conditions. More explicitly used strategies by the individual include rehearsal of material, chunking, pairing mental images with the material, mnemonics, and other meta-cognitive strategies.
4. Demand recognition evidence. Studies can take place in the lab, or even at home with researchers keeping in touch through weekly phone calls.
5. Test variation.

Knowledge Transfer

Within the home domain. Knowledge about Working memory training transfers literally when a new case preserves the same carrier type, relation, and recognition test. More explicitly used strategies by the individual include rehearsal of material, chunking, pairing mental images with the material, mnemonics, and other meta-cognitive strategies. Holmes et al. used a nonword recall task, mazes memory task, listening recall, and the "odd one-out" task. Beyond the home domain. No canonical parent is asserted for Working memory training.

Neighborhood in Abstraction Space

Working memory training sits in a moderately populated region (49^th percentile for distinctiveness): it has near-neighbors but no dense thicket of look-alikes.

Family — Social Cognition & Perception (13 abstractions)

Nearest neighbors

• Spatial memory — 0.89
• Unitary theories of memory — 0.89
• Colored music notation — 0.88
• Social cognition — 0.85
• Subitizing — 0.85

Computed from structural-signature embeddings · 2026-10-08