Torkel Klingberg

Torkel Klingberg is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.^[1] 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^[2] and The Learning Brain: Memory and Brain Development in Children.^[3] His research testing the hypothesis that playing memory games such as N-back also improves broader skills is controversial.^[4][5] He was one of the founders of Cogmed, but has currently no financial relationships with the company.^[1] He is executive director of Cognition Matters, a project that provides free digital cognitive training tools for children worldwide.^[6]