Online brain games can enable older people to multitask cognitively like younger individuals

Online brain games can enable older people to multitask cognitively like younger individuals
- August 19, 2019
- Mark Steyvers, News Medical, Aug. 19, 2019
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A University of California, Irvine-led study has found that online brain game exercises
can enable people in their 70s and even 80s to multitask cognitively as well as individuals
50 years their junior. This is an increasingly valuable skill, given today's daily
information onslaught, which can divide attention and be particularly taxing for older
adults.
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