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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Why brain training is (probably) pernicious hogwash « Computing for Psychologists

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  • Auditory Neuroscience Lab (Nina Kraus; Northwestern)
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  • Ability to move to a beat is linked to the consistency of neural responses to sound
  • Brain and Cognition: Introduction to the special issue on movement timing and coordination
  • Brain rhythm treatment efficacy: Can we fine tune our brain clocks?
  • Changing conceptions of time: Implications for educational research and practice
  • Components of the brain's clock
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  • Dissecting the brain’s internal clock
  • How many clocks do we have?
  • Motor-temporal link theory of temporal cognition
  • Neural basis of temporal processing
  • Neural correlates of time management
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  • Population clocks: Motor timing in neural dynamics
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  • Time perception: The bad news and the good
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  • What makes us tick?

Interactive Metronome Research (RCD = randomized treatment and control design study)

  • Beckelhimer et al. (2011) - Computer-based rhythm and timing training in severe, stroke-induced arm hemiparesis
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  • Koomar et al. (2001) - Theoretical and clinical perspectives on the Interactive Metronome: A view from occupational therapy
  • McGrew & Vega (2009) - The efficacy of rhythm-based (mental timing) treatments with subjects with a variety of clinical disorders: A brief review of theoretical, diagnostic, and treatment research
  • RCD: Libkuman et al. (2002) - Training in timing improves golf accuracy in golf
  • RCD: Nelson et al. (2013). Effects of Interactive Metronome therapy on cognitive functioning after blast-related brain injury: A randomized controlled pilot trial
  • RCD: Ritter et al. (2013) - Reading intervention using Interactive Metronome in children with language and reading impairement: A preliminary investigation
  • RCD: Shaffer et al. (2001) - Effect of Interactive Metronome training on children with ADHD
  • RCD: Soomer et al. (2009) - Improved motor-timing: Effects of synchronized metronome training on golf shot accuracy
  • RCD: Taub et al. (2007) - Improvement in interval time tracking and effects on reading achievement
  • RCD: Taub et al. (2015) - Effects of improvement in interval timing and mathematics achievement in elementary school students
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  • Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing
  • Rhythm in Psychological, Linguistic and Musical Processes
  • The Concept of Time in Pyschology
  • Time, Internal Clocks and Movement

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