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If left untreated, these difficulties can persist into adulthood. Growing evidence has reported the critical role of cognitive control (ability to regulate attention and memory processes) in the development and maintenance of emotional problems such as anxiety. Cognitive control training has shown promise in reducing emotional vulnerability in adults and adolescents. However, studies with children are scant. The present study examined the potential of a gamified inhibitory control training as a universal prevention strategy aimed at reducing emotional vulnerability in children. Given the link between inhibitory control and math achievement (i.e., greater inhibitory control associated with higher math achievement), we also explored whether 15 sessions of daily training could improve math performance. Our randomized controlled trial, conducted in accordance with a pre-registered, published protocol, used a 2 (Group: Inhibitory control training group,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u200962; vs. Active control group,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u200961) \u00d7 4 (Time: pre- vs. post-training vs. 1-month vs. 3-month follow-up) design in a non-selected sample of Australian children aged 8\u201311 years (\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u2009123). Emotional, cognitive and academic measures were collected at each timepoint. Intention-to-treat analyses using linear mixed models showed no evidence of proximal transfer to untrained inhibitory control measures and limited evidence of beneficial distal transfer to emotional or academic outcomes, with some outcomes showing trends favouring the active control condition. The absence of broader emotional and academic benefits may therefore reflect the lack of improvement in the targeted cognitive process itself. These findings highlight important considerations regarding the design and delivery of cognitive training interventions to universal samples, including the calibration of task demands and the conditions required to support cognitive transfer. 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