Further participants requested for study on what makes ’brain training’ successful?

As part of her PhD study (supervised by Dr Gorana Pobric, Dr Laura Brown and Dr Jason Taylor), Samantha Booth is looking for individuals to take part in a study investigating the determinants of 'brain training' success. She is looking for a small number of individuals to take part in the initial run. Participation would involve completing 16 online 'brain training' sessions (i.e. a programme of regular cognitive activities). The online tasks are all computer-based and are designed to measure 'working memory' (the ability to hold information in mind for a short period of time) and reasoning performance. Experience with computers is not required as the tasks only require a simple button press or mouse click response, with clear instructions provided beforehand. Each of the 16 sessions will be completed on a different day.