Cognitive flexibility training: A large-scale multimodal adaptive active-control intervention study in healthy older adults

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Buitenweg, Jessika I V ^a   Van de Ven, Renate M ^a   Prinssen, Sam ^a   Murre, Jaap M J ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive flexibility; Cognitive training; Executive functions; Videogames

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY TRAINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; GAME; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR FUNCTION TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAINING PROJECT AMSTERDAM SENIORS AND STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 85041000466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00529     Document Type: Article

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