Self-supervised, mobile-application based cognitive training of auditory attention: A behavioral and fMRI evaluation

Internet Interventions

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 102-110

  Bless, Josef J ^a,b   Westerhausen, René ^a,b   Kompus, Kristiina ^a,b   Gudmundsen, Magne ^a   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Auditory attention; Cognitive training; Dichotic listening; FMRI; Mobile application; Neural plasticity; Self supervised

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; STROOP TEST; TRAINING;

EID: 84950306656     PISSN: 22147829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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