INTRODUCTION The purpose of the study was to explore the feasibility, identify challenges, and offer solutions to evaluating transfer of training to the operations setting. BACKGROUND The assumption underlying public health emergency preparedness training is competencies and capabilities will transfer to the operations setting. However, there are no studies describing methods for evaluating t...

N-back training has recently come under intense scientific scrutiny due to reports of training-related improvements in general fluid intelligence. As of yet, relatively little is known about the effects of short-term n-back training interventions, however. In a pretest-training-posttest design, we compared brief dual and single n-back training regimen in terms of training gains and transfer eff...

Recent attention has focused on the benefits of cognitive training in healthy adults. Many commercial cognitive training programs are available given the attraction of not only bettering one's cognitive capacity, but also potentially preventing age-related declines, which is of particular interest to older adults. The issue of whether cognitive training can improve performance within cognitive ...