Dissociable effects of attention vs working memory training on cognitive performance and everyday functioning following fronto-parietal strokes.

ABSTRACT: Difficulties with attention are common following stroke, particularly in patients with frontal and parietal damage, and are associated with poor outcome. Home-based online cognitive training may have the potential to provide an efficient and effective way to improve attentional functions in such patients. Little work has been carried out to assess the efficacy of this approach in stroke patients, and the lack of studies with active control conditions and rigorous evaluations of cognitive functioning pre and post-training means understanding is limited as to whether and how such interventions may be effective. Here, in a feasibility pilot study, we compare the effects of 20 days of cognitive training using either novel Selective Attention Training (SAT) or commercial Working Memory Training

SUBMITTER: Peers PV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7266670 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature