Can Training in a Real-Time Strategy Video Game Attenuate Cognitive Decline in Older Adults?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 765-777

  Basak, Chandramallika ^a   Boot, Walter R ^a   Voss, Michelle W ^a   Kramer, Arthur F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cognitive training; executive control; transfer of training; video game

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 58749117444     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013494     Document Type: Article

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