What Could Computerized Brain Training Learn from Evidence-Based Medicine?
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In a Perspective linked to the study by Michael Valenzuela and colleagues, Druin Burch considers the context, content, and limitations of what we know about computerized cognitive enhancement. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
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