Cognitive Training for PTSD

Computer-administered cognitive training program. COGENT is a modified working memory capacity task designed to train cognitive functioning. COGENT was designed to contain high interference across trials. By requiring repeated practice with utilization of interference control across trials, COGENT is thought to enhance plasticity of cognitive systems and improve performance. That is, training is based on the premise that learning-based neural changes will occur via repeated exposure to a task demanding cognitive control resources

The non-training condition requires participants to complete a similar computer task for the same length of time. The non-training is a modified working memory capacity task designed to be inert. The non-training condition was designed to contain relatively less interference demands across trials. Participants are required to remember the same total number of items as in COGENT (i.e., storage requirements were equivalent), but the task contains relatively less interference inherent in the task.