A cognitive training intervention improves modality-specific attention in a randomized controlled trial of healthy older adults

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 655-668

  Mozolic, Jennifer L ^a   Long, Ashley B ^a   Morgan, Ashley R ^a   Rawley Payne, Melissa ^a   Laurienti, Paul J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory; Cognitive aging; Distraction; Training; Visual

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 79953039067     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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