Efficacy and Feasibility of the Mio-Training: A Metacognitive Intervention to Strengthen Cognitive Development of Children and Adolescents. An Evaluation Study

Background/Purpose: Cognitive trainings currently available have limited efficacy and lacks transfer to nontrained tasks and everyday functioning. We developed a novel metacognitive training at the intersection between exercise psychology and cognitive science, aiming to strengthen the cognitive development of young patients with atypical brain development in the long term. We evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of the Mio-Training on metacognition in healthy controls and expected an increase in metacognition, which is associated with an increase in cognitive performance and baseline variables (i.e., age, SES, and executive functions).