ABSTRACT
This volume explores the training of cognitive skills in order to optimize their efficiency, durability, and generalizability. Most of the data presented in the various chapters are based on studies using healthy or unimpaired subject populations. In this chapter, the focus is shifted from the training of cognitive skills in healthy subjects to the “retraining” or rehabilitation of cognitive skills in patient populations, specifically patients suffering from acquired brain injuries (ABI). Acquired brain injury is a larger category of brain injuries that includes traumatic brain injury (TBI) and nontraumatic brain damage such as ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, but excludes developmental or congenital neurological disorders.
