Torkel Klingberg is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the

Karolinska Institutet The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consist ...

in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of two books in Swedish, translated into English by Neil Betteridge, namely ''The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory'' and ''The Learning Brain: Memory and Brain Development in Children.'' His research testing the hypothesis that playing memory games such as N-back also improves broader skills is controversial. He was one of the founders of

Cogmed Cogmed is a cognitive training software program created in the lab of Torkel Klingberg, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute. Dr. Klingberg was using it to present working memory challenges to people while he studied their brains using f ...

, but has currently no financial relationships with the company. He is executive director of Cognition Matters, a project that provides free digital cognitive training tools for children worldwide.

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