Can They Help Older Adults?

SOURCES:

Susanne Jaeggi, PhD, associate professor of education, University of California, Irvine.

Benjamin Katz, PhD, assistant professor of human development, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

ClinicalTrials.gov: “ACTIVE: Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE).”

JAMA: “Effects of Cognitive Training Interventions With Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.”

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: “Ten-Year Effects of the ACTIVE Cognitive Training Trial on Cognition and Everyday Functioning in Older Adults.”

University of California Riverside Brain Games Center: “Train My Memory.”

Western University: “What is Working Memory?”

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory.”

University of Michigan: “A brain training exercise that really does work.”