Enhancement of cognitive and neural functions through complex reasoning training: Evidence from normal and clinical populations

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Chapman, Sandra B ^a   Mudar, Raksha A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Cognition; Cognitive training; Gist reasoning; Neural

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING MEANING; AGE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXERCISE; GIST REASONING TRAINING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDITATION; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TRAINING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84899683884     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00069     Document Type: Article

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