Megan Spencer-Smith
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first heard Mar 2015
last heard Mar 2015
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That's an effect size described often as moderate or moderate to large.
For example, when we look at the effects of pharmacological treatments that are trying to address behaviour problems such as antidepressants, the effect sizes there are generally around 0.3.
So an effect size of 0.47 is impressive and the initial evidence is encouraging.
The programs that are often discussed in the literature as having benefits for daily life, these programs have an adaptive approach, constantly pushing the individual to their capacity based on their own performance on a trial-by-trial basis.
At the moment, that is being studied.
So whether, for example, training on verbal working memory tasks or visual spatial working memory tasks are most beneficial.
That isn't quite clear at the moment.
Some other aspects of a program that seem to be important are factors such as motivation.
So this is important for making sure that the individual is completing the program.
We're asking them to do demanding tasks for quite a long time.
The training programs can range in length.
The program that we focused on that has a program that's five weeks long and the individual is asked to train every day, five days a week over those five
You might want to ask some questions, yeah.
The difference between those programs is minimal and it's just the interface.
So this idea of trying to engage a child to keep motivated for five weeks, whereas adults, perhaps they wouldn't be motivated by the same format as a child.
Harm is something that hasn't been discussed so much in the literature.
There is discussion about whether asking an individual to train for that amount of time without benefits is something that's concerning.
And that's why it's important that we do these trials to make sure that if we're asking someone to do such a large commitment and pay money, that there are real benefits.
Thank you, Norman.
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