Posts Tagged ‘usa’

Efficacy of Interactive Metronome treatment study (Cosper, 2009): An example of a "non-example" of IM efficacy research

Friday, February 5th, 2010

As a member of the Interactive Metronome Scientific Advisory Board I am often asked to review published research studies that have investigated the IM method. Recently, a investigation of the effectiveness IM (which is a mental timing -based intervnetion) with children with attention deficit disorder and developmental coordination disorders was published in the International Journal of Rehabilitation Research . The citation and abstract for the article are reproduced below.

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Efficacy of Interactive Metronome treatment study (Cosper, 2009): An example of a "non-example" of IM efficacy research

iBlogging mobile post: Aging training and the brain lit review

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

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Humor break: Grw

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Not sure that this is really all that funny. Double click image to enlarge

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Humor break: Grw

Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Conf. Jan 2010

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Conference: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society @ Uni of Arizona, Tucson, USA. 7-8 Jan 2010

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Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Conf. Jan 2010

Working Memory Training Raises IQ of Adults

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I have pointed out in an earlier post how training young children to increase their working memory capacity will increase their IQ. This same phenomenon has now been demonstrated in young adults (mean age = 25.6 years)

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Working Memory Training Raises IQ of Adults

Visual Memory Has Astounding Capacity

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

My book on memory improvement presents much anecdotal evidence that people with outstanding memories use mental images of what they are trying to remember. Now, a formal scientific study validates the conclusion that ordinary humans have astounding memory capacity for visual (but not auditory) memories. In this study, young adults (20-35 yrs) were shown a succession of object images, one every three seconds

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Visual Memory Has Astounding Capacity