Game-based cognitive training for the aging brain

Frontiers in Psychology

Julia Karbach¹ 

关键词: cognitive training;    cognitive plasticity;    cognitive aging;    game-based learning;    executive functions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01100

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Cognitive aging is associated with a decline in cognitive control functions (Daniels et al., 2006), including working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility (Miyake et al., 2000). Given that impairments in cognitive control are associated with impaired functioning in daily life (Burgess et al., 1998), numerous cognitive training studies aimed at improving cognitive control in older individuals. They showed that cognitive plasticity is considerable up to very old age and that cognitive control training leads to significant performance improvements on the trained tasks. Moreover, some interventions benefitted performance on untrained tasks that were tapping the same ability as the training tasks (near transfer) or even other abilities (far transfer) (see the Frontiers Research Topic on training-induced cognitive and neural plasticity, Karbach and Schubert, 2013). However, transfer effects were not consistent across studies and have inspired heated recent debates (e.g., Shipstead et al., 2012; Redick et al., 2013).

【 授权许可】

CC BY