title: A cluster-randomised, controlled trial of the impact of Cogmed Working Memory Training on both academic performance and regulation of social, emotional and behavioural challenges.
abstract: We explored whether school-based Cogmed Working Memory Training (CWMT) may optimise both academic and psychological outcomes at school. Training of executive control skills may form a novel approach to enhancing processes that predict academic achievement, such as task-related attention, and thereby academic performance, but also has the potential to improve the regulation of emotion, social problems and behavioural difficulties.
  
  
  
  Primary school children (Mean age = 12 years, N = 148) were cluster-randomised to complete active CWMT, a nonadaptive/placebo version of CWMT, or no training.
  
  
  
  No evidence was found for training effects on task-related attention when performing academic tasks, or performance on reading comprehension and mathematics tasks, or teacher-reported social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
  
  
  
  CWMT did not improve control of attention in the classroom, or regulation of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council, Science of Learning Research Centre, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.|Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Caitlin
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2435-0713
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hitchcock
authors.affiliation: Australian Research Council, Science of Learning Research Centre, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
authors.forename: Martin S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Westwell
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D000072466:Cognitive Remediation / Q000379:methods*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D000066553:Problem Behavior; D000068356:Self-Control; D012919:Social Behavior; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Working memory training; behaviour regulation; emotion regulation; learning