Online Games Training Aging Brains:Limited transfer to cognitive control functions

The prevalence of age-related cognitive decline will increase due to graying of the global population. The goal of the present study was to test whether playing online cognitive training games can improve cognitive control (CC) in healthy older adults. Fifty-four older adults (age 60-77) played five...

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Main Authors: Jesse eVan Muijden, Guido P H Band, Bernhard eHommel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00221/full