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The Effects Of Working Memory Training And Encoding Strategy On Working Memory Capacity, Frank Tuthill Jun 2018

The Effects Of Working Memory Training And Encoding Strategy On Working Memory Capacity, Frank Tuthill

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Undergraduate students from California State University, San Bernardino were recruited to examine the effects of working memory training and encoding strategy upon working memory capacity. Participants will be prescreened for low working memory capacity, and then will be tested on a battery of complex span measures. Participants will be divided into several strategy conditions: rehearsal, visual, and control. Then participants will be tested on their verbal working memory both before and after the 20 session n-back working memory training program. Participants are predicted to do the same or worse with the strategy instruction before working memory training while they will …