Aging Modulates Prefrontal Plasticity Induced by Executive Control Training.

ABSTRACT: While declines in inhibitory control, the capacity to suppress unwanted neurocognitive processes, represent a hallmark of healthy aging, whether this function is susceptible to training-induced plasticity in older populations remains largely unresolved. We addressed this question with a randomized controlled trial investigating the changes in behavior and electrical neuroimaging activity induced by a 3-week adaptive gamified Go/NoGo inhibitory control training (ICT). Performance improvements were accompanied by the development of more impulsive response strategies, but did not generalize to impulsivity traits nor quality of life. As compared with a 2-back working-memory training, the ICT in the older adults resulted in a purely quantitative reduction in the strength of the activity in a me

SUBMITTER: Najberg H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7786350 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature