Adult lifespan

Cognitive Training: An Overview of Features and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 45-55

  Guye, Sabrina ^a   Röcke, Christina ^a   Mérillat, Susan ^a   von Bastian, Claudia C ^b   Martin, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abilities; Affect; Aging; Brain; Cognitive training; Control group; Daily life; EEG; Healthy aging; Interindividual differences; Intraindividual differences; Maintenance; MRI; Multi domain; Older adults; Personality; Plasticity; Power; Process based; Strategy based; Training gain; Transfer; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009661027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42662-4_5     Document Type: Chapter

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