Greater age and fewer years of education predicted perceived effectiveness of CCT. Participants believed that CCT is somewhat effective for improving mood and cognition across a variety of domains. Motivations for using CCT included curiosity to improve or maintain cognition to prevent cognitive decline and/or for enjoyment or fun.
Results: Almost half of the surveyed participants had used CCT, and respondents with a self-reported psychological or neurological disorder were more likely to have used CCT platforms than participants without such conditions. Exploratory analyses are reported descriptively, while parametric tests were used to analyze a priori hypotheses.
This survey asked novel questions regarding respondents’ beliefs about the effectiveness of CCT for improving different domains of cognition, mood, and daily life beliefs about whether CCT programs are supported by research and whether impressions of CCT have improved or worsened over time. Method: We collected survey data from 497 North American participants from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Given the mixed findings in the literature, researchers are beginning to investigate how beliefs and attitudes toward CCT impact motivation, expectations, and gains after cognitive training. Despite early enthusiasm, whether these programs enhance cognitive abilities in healthy adults is a contentious area of investigation. Introduction: In recent years, computerized cognitive training (CCT) programs have been developed commercially for widespread public consumption. 2Graduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.1Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Goghari 1,2*, Daniel Krzyzanowski 1,2, Sharon Yoon 1, Yanni Dai 1 and Deanna Toews 1
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