ArticleNeurorehabilitation and neural repair
Brain Changes Following Executive Control Training in Older Adults.
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- The lifespan trajectories of brain activities related to conflict-driven cognitive control.Science bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- The neural correlates of cognitive training-induced gains in aging: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.npj aging · 2025Article
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- Resting-State Connectivity Changes After Goal-Oriented Attentional Self-Regulation Training in Veterans With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Preliminary Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial.Neurotrauma reports · 2023Article
- Maintained and Delayed Benefits of Executive Function Training and Low-Intensity Aerobic Exercise Over a 3.5-Year Period in Older Adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Functional MRI on executive functioning in aging and dementia: A scoping review of cognitive tasks.Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) · 2018Article
- Neural Correlates of Working Memory Maintenance in Advanced Aging: Evidence From fMRI.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundWhile older adults are able to attend to goal-relevant information, the capacity to ignore irrelevant or distracting information declines with advancing age. This decline in selective attention has been associated with poor modulation of brain activity in sensory cortices by anterior brain regions implicated in cognitive control.
objectiveHere we investigated whether participation in an executive control training program would result in improved selective attention and associated functional brain changes in a sample of healthy older adults (N = 24, age 60-85 years).
methodsParticipants were enrolled in a goal-oriented attentional self-regulation (GOALS) program (n = 11) or a brain health education workshop as an active control condition (n = 13). All participants performed a working memory task requiring attention to or suppression of visual stimuli based on goal-relevance during functional magnetic resonance imaging.
resultsWe observed a pattern of enhanced activity in right frontal, parietal and temporal brain regions from pre- to posttraining in the GOALS intervention group, which predicted the selectivity of subsequent memory for goal-relevant stimuli.
conclusionsExecutive control training in older adults alters functional activity in brain regions associated with attentional control, and selectively predicts behavioral outcome.
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