First International Workshop on Cognitive and Working Memory Training*

August 23–25, 2011
Marriott Inn & Conference Center
University of Maryland University College
Hyattsville, Maryland

 * By invitation only

The University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) is hosting a 2½-day workshop that features a series of presentations and panel discussions by leading scientists, with participation from U.S. government stakeholders and interested parties from industry.
Topics for discussion include:

• Benefits of cognitive training across a range of measures, including intelligence, working memory, vision, learning, creativity, and language processing, in both healthy and special populations.
• Best practices in the field regarding methods, tools, designs, and uses for theoretical, computational, and applied purposes.
• Summaries of the workshop presentations, including what we have learned over the past few years and what remains to be learned about the advantages, uses, and even potential caveats of cognitive training. Dr. Nelson Cowan (University of Missouri-Columbia) and Dr. Robert Logie (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) have agreed to serve as expert commentators.

One major goal of the workshop is to produce, within a year, an edited volume with chapters authored by participants and their collaborators. We anticipate that such a book will be a key contribution to the field, coalescing a host of research efforts on cognitive training and cognitive plasticity into a single book, and that it will be accessible to researchers in the cognitive and neural sciences, practitioners, and students.