Trial reportJournal of cognitive neuroscience2017
Enhancing Spatial Attention and Working Memory in Younger and Older Adults.
Trial report in Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2017. 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 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Impact of Concurrent Brain Stimulation and Working Memory Training on Cognitive Performance in Acquired Brain Injury
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Parental Companionship Shapes Children's Attentional Functions and Academic Achievement.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- A Pilot Study on Video Game Training Effects on Visual Working Memory: Behavioral and Neural Insights.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Tablet-Based Puzzle Game Intervention for Cognitive Function and Well-Being in Healthy Adults: Pilot Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR aging · 2023Article
- Attention in Schizophrenia.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- Integrated cognitive and physical fitness training enhances attention abilities in older adults.npj aging · 2022Article
- Methodology and preliminary data on feasibility of a neurofeedback protocol to improve visual attention to letters in mild Alzheimer's disease.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- Leveraging technology to personalize cognitive enhancement methods in aging.Nature aging · 2022Article
- Multiple Connection Pattern Combination From Single-Mode Data for Mild Cognitive Impairment Identification.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
- Linked Sources of Neural Noise Contribute to Age-related Cognitive Decline.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- A critical review of the cognitive and perceptual factors influencing attentional scaling and visual processing.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Review
- Closed-Loop Attention Restoration Theory for Virtual Reality-Based Attentional Engagement Enhancement.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Fostering Self-Management of Everyday Memory in Older Adults: A New Intervention Approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Group Similarity Constraint Functional Brain Network Estimation for Mild Cognitive Impairment Classification.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Feature Selection and Combination of Information in the Functional Brain Connectome for Discrimination of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Analyses of Altered Brain Patterns.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2020Article
- A Tablet-Based Assessment of Rhythmic Ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Video Games for Well-Being: A Systematic Review on the Application of Computer Games for Cognitive and Emotional Training in the Adult Population.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Daily experiences demand both focused and broad allocation of attention for us to interact efficiently with our complex environments. Many types of attention have shown age-related decline, although there is also evidence that such deficits may be remediated with cognitive training. However, spatial attention abilities have shown inconsistent age-related differences, and the extent of potential enhancement of these abilities remains unknown. Here, we assessed spatial attention in both healthy younger and older adults and trained this ability in both age groups for 5 hr over the course of 2 weeks using a custom-made, computerized mobile training application. We compared training-related gains on a spatial attention assessment and spatial working memory task to age-matched controls who engaged in expectancy-matched, active placebo computerized training. Age-related declines in spatial attention abilities were observed regardless of task difficulty. Spatial attention training led to improved focused and distributed attention abilities as well as improved spatial working memory in both younger and older participants. No such improvements were observed in either of the age-matched control groups. Note that these findings were not a function of improvements in simple response time, as basic motoric function did not change after training. Furthermore, when using change in simple response time as a covariate, all findings remained significant. These results suggest that spatial attention training can lead to enhancements in spatial working memory regardless of age.
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