Table 1.
Regulation strategies applied by subjects over the course of the eight training sessions.
| Strategy | Ses 1 | Ses 2 | Ses 3 | Ses 4 | Ses 5 | Ses 6 | Ses 7 | Ses 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verbal Fluency Task | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
| Calculating | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| Name terms of certain categories (e.g., cities, countries, animals) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| Mental to-do-list | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Speech associated strategies (conjugating Latin verbs, inner speech, backward spelling) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Imagination of movie scenes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Drawing red | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| “Stadt-Land-Fluss” | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Music associated strategies (imagine playing the piano, singing, arranging chords) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tower of London | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Programming | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mental rotation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sport movements | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thinking about sex | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Imagination of emotional situations | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Concentration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Reciting the alphabet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Numbers indicate how many of the participants resorted to the respective strategy for each session.