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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2018 Dec 1;105:19–42. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2018.10.003

Table 1. Characteristics of the selected studies in Study 1.

Study Sample Training program (n) Active control (n)
Ang et al. (2015) Children with low WM, 7–8 years Updating (32), Cogmed RM (25) No memory load updating (28)
Bergman Nutley et al. (2011) Children, 4 years Cogmed JM (24) Non-adaptive Cogmed (26)
Bigorra et al. (2016) Children with ADHD, 7–12 years Cogmed RM (30 Non-adaptive Cogmed (31)
Brehmer et al. (2012) Younger (20–30 years) and older (60–70 years) adults Cogmed QM (54) Non-adaptive Cogmed (45)
Chacko et al. (2013) Children with ADHD, 7–11 years Cogmed RM: (44) Non-adaptive Cogmed (41)
Chooi and Thompson (2012) Adults N-back (15) Non-adaptive 1-back (26)
Dentz et al. (2017) Adults with ADHD, 18–63 years Cogmed QM (23) Non-adaptive Cogmed (21)
Dunning and Holmes (2014) Adults 18–21 years Cogmed RM (15) Non-adaptive Cogmed (15)
Foster et al. (2017) Adults 18–35 years, low or high span Complex span (40), running span (39) Adaptive visual search (39)
Gray et al. (2012) Adolescents with severe learning difficulties and ADHD, 12–17 years Cogmed RM (32) Adaptive mathematics (20)
Harrison et al. (2013) Adults Complex span (21), simple span (17) Adaptive visual search (17)
Henry et al. (2013) Children, 8–10 years Complex span (18) Processing speed (18)
Hitchcock and Westwell (2017) Children, 10–13 years Cogmed RM (50) Non-adaptive Cogmed (44)
Karbach et al. (2015) Children, 7–9 years Complex span (14) Non-adaptive Cogmed (14)
Kundu et al. (2015) Adults, 18–35 years N-back (15) Adaptive computer game (15)
Lawler-Savage and Goghari (2016) Adults, 30–60 years N-back (27) Adaptive processing speed (30)
Metzler-Baddeley et al. (2016) Adults, mean age 26 years Cogmed QM (20) Non-adaptive Cogmed (20)
Minear et al. (2016) Adults, mean age 19 years N-back (31), complex span (32) Adaptive video game (26)
Passolunghi and Costa (2016) Children, 5 years Complex span(15) Adaptive numeracy training (15)
Redick et al. (2013) Adults, 18–30 years N-back (24) Adadptive visual search (29)
Thompson et al. (2013) Adults, 18–45 years Updating (20) Adaptive object tracking (19)
Van der Molen et al. (2010) Adolescent with intellectual disabilities Complex span (41) Non-adaptive version same task (26)
von Bastian et al. (2013) Adults 18–35 years & 61–77 years Complex span (61) Adaptive non-memory (62)