Online brain games could help elderly improve cognitive abilities
Online brain games could help elderly improve cognitive abilities
- August 20, 2019
- Mark Steyvers, cog sci, via News Medical Life Sciences, Aug. 20, 2019
Mark Steyvers, a UCI professor of cognitive sciences, and lead author of the study
explained, “The brain is not a muscle, but like our bodies, if we work out and train
it, we can improve our mental performance. We discovered that people in the upper
age ranges who completed specific training tasks were able to beef up their brain's
ability to switch between tasks in the game at a level similar to untrained 20- and
30-year-olds.”
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