Bradley Gibson

The ability to meet benchmark standards in core academic subjects such as reading and math is limited by a student's working memory (WM) capacity. This research seeks to explore the effects of a novel training regimen that can target and enhance both the attention and memory components of WM capacity on student education outcomes. According to the dual-component theory of WM, there are two critical components of WM capacity—an attention component and a memory component—that account for t...