Home-Based, Adaptive Cognitive Training for Cognitively Normal Older adults: Initial Efficacy Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined whether a home-based, adaptive cognitive training (CT) program would lead to cognitive performance changes on a neuropsychological test battery in cognitively normal older adults.

Method

Sixty-eight older adults (age = 70.0, SD = 3.74) were randomly assigned to either CT or an active control group (AC, casual computer games). Participants were instructed to train on their assigned programs for 42 min per day, 5 days per week, over 10 weeks (35 hr of total program usage). Participants completed tests of processing speed, working memory, and executive control before and after 10 weeks of training.

Results

Training groups did not differ in performance before training. After training, CT participants out-performed AC participants in the overall cogn

SUBMITTER: Lee HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7265807 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature