Memory enhancement in healthy older adults using a brain plasticity-based training program: A randomized, controlled study

By H. Mahncke, B. Connor, J. Appelman, Omar N. Ahsanuddin, J. Hardy, Richard A. Wood, N. Joyce, Tania Boniske, Sharona M. Atkins, Michael M. Merzenich. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Aging and Information Technology Use (2009, neutral): “Video games and brain ﬁt-ness software have been shown to improve performance on the speciﬁc tasks trained and even on some untrained laboratory tasks (e.g., Basak, Boot, Voss, & Kramer, 2008; Mahncke et al., 2006).”
Auditory processing interventions and developmental dyslexia: a comparison of phonemic and rhythmic approaches (2013, background): “While transfer of gains between specific auditory parameters such as frequency and intensity are typically not observed in adult studies (Hawkey, Amitay, & Moore, 2004), auditory training has been found to impact higher-level cognitive skills such as memory (Mahncke et al., 2006).”
Computer-Based Cognitive Training for Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results from a Pilot Randomized, Controlled Trial (2009, background): “36 In contrast, eﬀect sizes for measures of language and visuospatial function tended to favor the control condition, which involved listening to books, reading and playing the visuospatially oriented computer game Myst.”
Aging, training, and the brain: A review and future directions (2009, positive): “A precursor of this approach is the training program originally developed by Merzenich and colleagues to remediate developmental language disorders and more recently applied to older adults (Mahncke et al. 2006; Merzenich et al. 1996).”
A Cognitive Training Program Based on Principles of Brain Plasticity: Results from the Improvement in Memory with Plasticity‐based Adaptive Cognitive Training (IMPACT) Study (2009, methodology): “The trial design did not incorporate a no-contact control (NCC) condition based on comparisons of NCC and AC group auditory memory outcomes in previous work that showed equivalent cognitive improvements in NCC and AC groups.(27,28)”
Does working memory training work? The promise and challenges of enhancing cognition by training working memory (2011, neutral): “…approaches to cognitive enhancement through training include attention (Tang & Posner, 2009), speed of processing (Dux et al., 2009), neuro-feedback (Keizer, Verment, & Hommel, 2010), dual-task (Bherer, Kramer, & Peterson, 2008; Bherer et al., 2005) and perceptual (Mahncke et al., 2006) training.”