September 8, 2022Preparation and a positive outlook may give people an edge over others who only prepare. According to a recent study published in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, individuals given cognitive training who heard about the intervention’s benefits performed better on a working memory task than did those who received cognitive training but were not told how it would improve their performance.
1The study divided 193 participants (73.6% female, 24.8% male, 0.8% nonbinary, and 0.8% unspecified) recruited from three U.S.
universities into two groups. One group was told that cognitive training would improve their task performance, and the other was not.
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