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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2016

Video Game Training Enhances Visuospatial Working Memory and Episodic Memory in Older Adults.

Pilar Toril, José M Reales, Julia Mayas, Soledad Ballesteros

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04010149 (The Impact of Concurrent Brain Stimulation and Working Memory Training on Cognitive Performance in Acquired Brain Injury), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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NCT04010149 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

The Impact of Concurrent Brain Stimulation and Working Memory Training on Cognitive Performance in Acquired Brain Injury

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of BirminghamRan2019 to 2021Enrolled40ConditionsAcquired Brain InjuryArmsActive tDCS, SHAM tDCS
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 132 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pilar TorilStudies of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Madrid, Spain; Department of Basic Psychology II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Madrid, Spain.
José M RealesStudies of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Madrid, Spain; Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Madrid, Spain.
Julia MayasStudies of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Madrid, Spain; Department of Basic Psychology II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Madrid, Spain.
Soledad BallesterosStudies of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Group, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Madrid, Spain; Department of Basic Psychology II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)Madrid, Spain.
National University of Distance Education · ES

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this longitudinal intervention study with experimental and control groups, we investigated the effects of video game training on the visuospatial working memory (WM) and episodic memory of healthy older adults. Participants were 19 volunteer older adults, who received 15 1-h video game training sessions with a series of video games selected from a commercial package (Lumosity), and a control group of 20 healthy older adults. The results showed that the performance of the trainees improved significantly in all the practiced video games. Most importantly, we found significant enhancements after training in the trained group and no change in the control group in two computerized tasks designed to assess visuospatial WM, namely the Corsi blocks task and the Jigsaw puzzle task. The episodic memory and short-term memory of the trainees also improved. Gains in some WM and episodic memory tasks were maintained during a 3-month follow-up period. These results suggest that the aging brain still retains some degree of plasticity, and that video game training might be an effective intervention tool to improve WM and other cognitive functions in older adults.

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brain plasticitycognitive agingepisodic memorytrainingvideo gamesvisuospatial working memory

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PMID27199723
PMCPMC4859063
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