Journal article
Can Training in a Real-Time Strategy Video Game Attenuate Cognitive Decline in Older Adults?
Psychology and aging, Vol.23(4), pp.765-777
12/2008
DOI: 10.1037/a0013494
PMID: 19140648
Abstract
Declines in various cognitive abilities, particularly executive control functions, are observed in older adults. An important goal of cognitive training is to slow or reverse these age-related declines. However, opinion is divided in the literature regarding whether cognitive training can engender transfer to a variety of cognitive skills in older adults. In the current study, the authors trained older adults in a real-time strategy video game for 23.5 hr in an effort to improve their executive functions. A battery of cognitive tasks, including tasks of executive control and visuospatial skills, were assessed before, during, and after video-game training. The trainees improved significantly in the measures of game performance. They also improved significantly more than the control participants in executive control functions, such as task switching, working memory, visual short-term memory, and reasoning. Individual differences in changes in game performance were correlated with improvements in task switching. The study has implications for the enhancement of executive control processes of older adults.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Can Training in a Real-Time Strategy Video Game Attenuate Cognitive Decline in Older Adults?
- Creators
- Chandramallika Basak - Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignWalter R Boot - Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMichelle W Voss - Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignArthur F Kramer - Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Contributors
- Ulrich Mayr (Editor)Fredda Blanchard-Fields (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychology and aging, Vol.23(4), pp.765-777
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0013494
- PMID
- 19140648
- NLM abbreviation
- Psychol Aging
- ISSN
- 0882-7974
- eISSN
- 1939-1498
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000049, name: National Institute on Aging, award: RO1 AG25667; RO1 AG25302; name: Beckman Institute
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2008
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002337702771
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