Hundred Days of Cognitive Training Enhance Broad Cognitive Abilities in Adulthood: Findings from the COGITO Study

Hundred Days of Cognitive Training Enhance Broad Cognitive Abilities in Adulthood : Findings from the COGITO Study

Schmiedek, Florian (author)

Lövdén, Martin (author): Stockholms universitet,Centrum för forskning om äldre och åldrande (ARC), (tills m KI)

Lindenberger, Ulman (author)

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2010
2010
English.
In: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. - Lausanne : Frontiers Research Foundation. - 1663-4365. ; 2, s. 1-10

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Abstract Subject headings

We examined whether positive transfer of cognitive training, which so far has been observed for individual tests only, also generalizes to cognitive abilities, thereby carrying greater promise for improving everyday intellectual competence in adulthood and old age. In the COGITO Study, 101 younger and 103 older adults practiced six tests of perceptual speed (PS), three tests of working memory (WM), and three tests of episodic memory (EM) for over 100 daily 1-h sessions. Transfer assessment included multiple tests of PS, WM, EM, and reasoning. In both age groups, reliable positive transfer was found not only for individual tests but also for cognitive abilities, represented as latent factors. Furthermore, the pattern of correlations between latent change factors of practiced and latent change factors of transfer tasks indicates systematic relations at the level of broad abilities, making the interpretation of effects as resulting from unspecific increases in motivation or self-concept less likely.

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MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES: MEDICAL AND HEAL ...; and Basic Medicine; and Neurosciences

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