The workshop will be held October 11-13, 2012. It features invited oral presentations, a poster session as well as a discussion forum.


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Guido Band (Leiden University, Leiden)

Predictors of acquisition speed for surgical skills


Yvonne Brehmer (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)

Neural mechanisms of lifespan age differences in episodic memory formation and plasticity


Lorenza Colzato (Leiden University, Leiden)

Genetic modulation of training and transfer in young adults: COMT  Val158Met polymorphism is associated with the flexible mind


Shawn Green (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)

Action video games and learning to learn


Bernhard Hommel (Leiden University, Leiden)

Fine-tuning cognitive-control parameters through neurofeedback and meditation


Alexander Garthe & Gerd Kempermann (Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden)

Adult neurogenesis as a neuronal investment loan


Julia Karbach (Saarland University, Saarbruecken), Tilo Strobach, & Torsten Schubert (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Effects of working memory training on academic abilities in middle childhood


Matthias Kliegel (University of Geneva)

Prospective memory training in healthy aging: Possibilities and limits


Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)

Training of working memory


Arthur Kramer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Take a Walk: Physical activity, cognition and the brain


Richard Ridderinkhof (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam)

Brain training in progress


Torsten Schubert (Humboldt University, Berlin)

The impact of action video gaming and working memory training on multi-tasking skills


Florian Schmiedek (Center for Research on Education and Development, Frankfurt)

Do concepts of latent factor transfer transfer to studies of transfer?


Cora Titz (Center for Research on Education and Development, Frankfurt)

Education affects older adults' focus switching performance, but not training gains


Claudia von Bastian & Klaus Oberauer (University of Zurich, Zurich)

Can working memory be improved? Evidence from training studies based on the facet model of working memory capacity


Elisabeth Wenger, Ulman Lindenberger, & Martin Lövdén (MPI, Berlin)

Age and individual differences in adult structural brain plasticity