Brain Changes Following Executive Control Training in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While older adults are able to attend to goal-relevant information, the capacity to ignore irrelevant or distracting information declines with advancing age. This decline in selective attention has been associated with poor modulation of brain activity in sensory cortices by anterior brain regions implicated in cognitive control.

Objective

Here we investigated whether participation in an executive control training program would result in improved selective attention and associated functional brain changes in a sample of healthy older adults (N = 24, age 60-85 years).

Methods

Participants were enrolled in a goal-oriented attentional self-regulation (GOALS) program (n = 11) or a brain health education workshop as an active control condition (n = 13). All part

SUBMITTER: Adnan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5729113 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct-Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature