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October 3, 2008

Training The Mind: Transfer Across Tasks Requiring Interference Resolution

[ , Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience ]

What if training ourselves on one task yielded improvements in all other tasks we perform? This is the promise of the cognitive training movement, which is increasingly showing that such "far transfer" of training is indeed possible, while short of...

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