The Impact of Working Memory Training on Cognitive Abilities in Older Adults: The role of Cognitive Reserve.

CONCLUSION: Results of our study suggest that although the experimental group slightly improved their performance on the trained task, the progress was not statistically significant. There was also no statistically significant transfer of training effects onto tasks of visual-spatial and verbal memory, as well as those related to executive functioning. However, the study did identify a statistically significant correlation between cognitive reserve and certain tests performed at the final testing: tasks measuring executive functioning and spatial ability. Results also revealed that the group that showed improvement on the training task was significantly better in ROCF test in comparison with the group that has not improved their performance on N-back task. Thus, visual-spatial abilities (visual perception, construction and memory) were more connected with success in WM training, than other measured cognitive abilities (e.g. verbal and numerical memory). PMID: 31424375 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Aging Science - Category: Geriatrics Tags: Curr Aging Sci Source Type: research