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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

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  • Inhibition is a core executive function comprising perceptual, cognitive, and response processes.
  • These inhibitory skills develop early in life and are crucial for daily activities.
  • Individual and contextual factors influence the development of inhibitory processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design, implement, and evaluate targeted training for perceptual, cognitive, and response inhibition in school-aged children (6-8 years).
  • To analyze the near, far, short-term, and long-term transfer effects of this inhibitory training.

Main Methods:

  • An experimental design was employed with three distinct training groups (perceptual, cognitive, response inhibition) and an active control group.
  • Children aged 6-8 years participated in the training interventions.
  • Transfer effects were assessed using various cognitive tasks.

Main Results:

  • No near transfer effects were observed across the training groups.
  • Short-term improvements in visuospatial working memory were noted after response and cognitive inhibition training.
  • Both short-term and long-term improvements in fluid intelligence were observed following cognitive inhibition training.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support a multidimensional view of inhibitory processes.
  • It is plausible to train distinct inhibitory processes during childhood, leading to cognitive benefits.
  • Cognitive inhibition training shows potential for enhancing fluid intelligence over both short and long terms.