Online Games Training Aging Brains: Limited transfer to cognitive control functions

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2012, Pages

  van Muijden, Jesse ^a   Band, Guido P H ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive control; Cognitive enhancement; Far transfer; Videogames

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PESSIMISM; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCORING SYSTEM; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VIDEOGAME; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933675293     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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