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| Title |
The Effects of Home-Based Cognitive Training on Verbal Working Memory and Language Comprehension in Older Adulthood
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, August 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00256 |
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| Authors |
Brennan R. Payne, Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow |
| Abstract |
Effective language understanding is crucial to maintaining cognitive abilities and learning new information through adulthood. However, age-related declines in working memory (WM) have a robust negative influence on multiple aspects of language comprehension and use, potentially limiting communicative competence. In the current study (N = 41), we examined the effects of a novel home-based computerized cognitive training program targeting verbal WM on changes in verbal WM and language comprehension in healthy older adults relative to an active component-control group. Participants in the WM training group showed non-linear improvements in performance on trained verbal WM tasks. Relative to the active control group, WM training participants also showed improvements on untrained verbal WM tasks and selective improvements across untrained dimensions of language, including sentence memory, verbal fluency, and comprehension of syntactically ambiguous sentences. Though the current study is preliminary in nature, it does provide initial promising evidence that WM training may influence components of language comprehension in adulthood and suggests that home-based training of WM may be a viable option for probing the scope and limits of cognitive plasticity in older adults. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Austria | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 5 | 83% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 2 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 108 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 108 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 9% |
| Researcher | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 18% |
| Unknown | 31 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 39 | 36% |
| Neuroscience | 11 | 10% |
| Linguistics | 4 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 10 | 9% |
| Unknown | 37 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 November 2017.
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#8,001,063
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Outputs from Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
#3,059
of 5,551 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#116,252
of 328,343 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
#39
of 99 outputs
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