Journal article
Active Experiencing Training Improves Episodic Memory Recall in Older Adults
Frontiers in aging neuroscience, Vol.9(MAY), pp.133-133
05/09/2017
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00133
PMCID: PMC5422432
PMID: 28536521
Abstract
Active experiencing (AE) is an intervention aimed at attenuating cognitive declines with mindfulness training via an immersive acting program, and has produced promising results in older adults with limited formal education. Yet, the cognitive mechanism(s) of intervention benefits and generalizability of gains across cognitive domains in the course of healthy aging is unclear. We addressed these issues in an intervention trial of older adults (
N
= 179; mean age = 69.46 years at enrollment; mean education = 16.80 years) assigned to an AE condition (
n
= 86) or an active control group (i.e., theatre history;
n
= 93) for 4 weeks. A cognitive battery was administered before and after intervention, and again at a 4-month follow-up. Group differences in change in cognition were tested in latent change score models (LCSM). In the total sample, several cognitive abilities demonstrated significant repeated-testing gains. AE produced greater gains relative to the active control only in episodic recall, with gains still evident up to 4 months after intervention. Intervention conditions were similar in the magnitude of gains in working memory, executive function and processing speed. Episodic memory is vulnerable to declines in aging and related neurodegenerative disease, and AE may be an alternative or supplement to traditional cognitive interventions with older adults.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Active Experiencing Training Improves Episodic Memory Recall in Older Adults
- Creators
- Sarah E Banducci - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAna M Daugherty - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignJohn R Biggan - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignGillian E Cooke - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMichelle Voss - Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of IowaTony Noice - Department of Theatre, Elmhurst CollegeHelga Noice - Psychology Department, Elmhurst CollegeArthur F Kramer - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in aging neuroscience, Vol.9(MAY), pp.133-133
- DOI
- 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00133
- PMID
- 28536521
- PMCID
- PMC5422432
- NLM abbreviation
- Front Aging Neurosci
- ISSN
- 1663-4365
- eISSN
- 1663-4365
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media S.A
- Grant note
- National Institute on Aging
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/09/2017
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070763802771
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