Working memory training

Working memory training increases brain activation in humans.

“followed by a late-phase (MID to POST) increase in activity in the frontal lobe during the 2-back condition”

Human trialhigh load (2-back) condition, late phase (MID to POST)frontal lobe

Working memory training in older adults: Load- and phase-dependent changes in brain activation

Behavioural brain research·26 Jun 2026

Working memory training decreases brain activation in humans.

“Working memory training improvement was associated with an early (PRE to MID) decrease in activity in frontoparietal regions during the 1-back condition”

Human triallow load (1-back) condition, early phase (PRE to MID)frontoparietal regions

Working memory training in older adults: Load- and phase-dependent changes in brain activation

Behavioural brain research·26 Jun 2026

Working memory training improves subjective perception of general health in humans.

“the longer training significantly improves the subjective perception of general health”

Human trial18 sessions (1 h each)

Cognitive and Psychological Transfer Effects of Length-Dependent Working Memory Training in Healthy Older Adults

Journal of Intelligence·1 Jul 2026

Working memory training decreases negative affective states in humans.

“three sessions of training can diminish reported loneliness and negative affective states”

Human trial3 sessions (1 h each)

Cognitive and Psychological Transfer Effects of Length-Dependent Working Memory Training in Healthy Older Adults

Journal of Intelligence·1 Jul 2026

Working memory training decreases loneliness in humans.

“three sessions of training can diminish reported loneliness”

Human trial3 sessions (1 h each)

Cognitive and Psychological Transfer Effects of Length-Dependent Working Memory Training in Healthy Older Adults

Journal of Intelligence·1 Jul 2026

Working memory training improves cognitive function in humans.

“Our results confirmed the already demonstrated specific cognitive effects that seem to increase as the number of sessions increases.”

Human trialdose-dependent

Cognitive and Psychological Transfer Effects of Length-Dependent Working Memory Training in Healthy Older Adults

Journal of Intelligence·1 Jul 2026

Working memory training improves load-related brain activation modulation in humans.

“training restores older adults' load-related modulation of activation to more youthlike levels”

Human trialPOST training, medial and left hemisphere

Working memory training in older adults: Load- and phase-dependent changes in brain activation

Behavioural brain research·26 Jun 2026

Working memory training has no effect on performance on other cognitive tasks in humans.

“Transfer of WM training effects was not revealed.”

Human trialassessment of transfer effectsprocess-based12 sessions

Limited training and transfer effects in older and young adults who participated in 12 sessions of process-based working memory training. A three-armed pretest-posttest design study

BMC research notes·28 Jun 2024

Working memory training improves working memory in humans.

“participants who completed the WM intervention outperformed the active control group in non-trained WM measures, and to some extent, in inhibitory control.”

Human trialCompared with active control training; assessed at post-test using non-trained measures20 sessions

EngAge - A metacognitive intervention to supplement working memory training: A feasibility study in older adults

Aging brain·1 Jan 2023