“Training and Transfer Effects of Long-Term Memory Retrieval Training”, 2020-08-30 (; similar):
Long-term memory retrieval ability and working memory can share attention control ability. Based on cognitive plasticity, a hypothesis that cognitive training could improve long-term memory retrieval efficiency and that this could transfer to retrieval involving working memory was proposed.
60 undergraduates were randomly assigned to a group of training and an active control group; all the participants completed the same tasks in the same order before and after the training, the tasks included a long-term memory retrieval access task, an intelligence test, a switching task, a working memory updating task, a response inhibition task and an interference control task.
The statistics results indicate that cognitive training can improve long-term memory retrieval efficiency and has a transfer effect on working memory updating, interference control and switching ability, but not on response inhibition or intelligence.
This reveal the plasticity of long-term memory retrieval and its influence on working memory.