Brain training in progress: A review of trainability in healthy seniors

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Buitenweg, Jessika I V ^a   Murre, Jaap M J ^a   Richard Ridderinkhof, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptiveness; Aging; Brain training; Executive functions; Individual differences; Memory; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

AGING; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MENTAL TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84864234716     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00183     Document Type: Review

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