Multidomain Cognitive Training Transfers to Attentional and Executive Functions in Healthy Older Adults.
cognitive training
executive functions
selective attention
stroop interference
transfer
verbal fluency
Journal
Frontiers in human neuroscience
ISSN: 1662-5161
Titre abrégé: Front Hum Neurosci
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101477954
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
24
07
2020
accepted:
19
10
2020
entrez:
11
12
2020
pubmed:
12
12
2020
medline:
12
12
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Healthy aging is associated with deficits in focused and sustained attention and executive functions. However, cognitive training (CT) provides a promising method to counteract these deficits. In the present randomized controlled study, we examined to what extent CT regimes can improve attention, verbal skills, and inhibition capacities. Over a period of 16 weeks, healthy older adults (65 years and older, mean: 70 years) received a trainer-guided multidomain paper-and-pencil and computerized CT. Pre- and post-training, a battery of psychometric tests was applied that measured the critical functions. This study used two control groups: a passive control and an active control group performing a relaxation training. Compared to a passive control group, the CT led to enhanced performance in the attentional endurance test and the interference list of the Stroop test, whereas no benefits in verbal and crystalized tests were found. Similar effects were found on the attentional endurance compared to the active control group. Additionally, word fluency was enhanced after CT, but the improvement in the Stroop test did not reach significance compared to the active control. The contents of CT were dissimilar to the psychometric tests showing far transfer, whereas no transfer to attentional or memory functions in the daily life assessed by the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire was found. This demonstrates specific gains of multidomain CT on cognitive functions not explicitly trained and lack of transfer to daily activities.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33304256
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.586963
pmc: PMC7701175
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
586963Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Gajewski, Thönes, Falkenstein, Wascher and Getzmann.
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