Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training (SMART), as implemented in the 2014 study by Gamino et al., is a 1-month training program created with the goal of teaching “hierarchical cognitive strategies that support higher-order abstraction of meaning from incoming details and world knowledge” (Gamino et al., 2010). It focuses on verbal comprehension for written texts, with a focus on nuanced meaning rather than memorization of explicit details, with seven components of instruction: “ (1) deliberate inhibition of extraneous information; (2) chunking and organizing relevant information; (3) inference; (4) paraphrasing; (5) synthesis of important details; (6) interpretation of take home messages; and (7) abstraction of deeper meanings and synthesis of the processes in order to elicit top-down processing” (Gamino et al., 2014).
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