Evaluating the relationship between change in performance on training tasks and on untrained outcomes

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Zelinski, Elizabeth M ^a   Peters, Kelly D ^a   Hindin, Shoshana ^a   Petway II, Kevin T ^a   Kennison, Robert F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive training; Multimodal training; Untrained outcomes

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VERBAL MEMORY; VERY ELDERLY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84928560336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00617     Document Type: Article

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