Putting brain training to the test

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7299, 2010, Pages 775-778

  Owen, Adrian M ^a   Hampshire, Adam ^a   Grahn, Jessica A ^a   Stenton, Robert ^b   Dajani, Said ^b   Burns, Alistair S ^c   Howard, Robert J ^b   Ballard, Clive G ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMORY; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; TRAINING;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPUTERS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THINKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953412425     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09042     Document Type: Article

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