Multi-domain training in healthy old age: Hotel Plastisse as an iPad-based serious game to systematically compare multi-domain and single-domain training

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Binder, Julia C ^a   Zöllig, Jacqueline ^a   Eschen, Anne ^a   Mérillat, Susan ^a   Röcke, Christina ^a   Schoch, Sarah F ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a   Martin, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive decline; Cognitive training; Healthy aging; iPad; Multi domain training; Serious game

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE TRAINING; COMPUTER; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LEISURE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOBILE APPLICATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; RECREATION; RESPONSE TIME; SELF ESTEEM; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRAINING; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84938601691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00137     Document Type: Article

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