TY - GEN
T1 - The effect of visuospatial working memory training in elders
T2 - 1st International Conference on Orange Technologies, ICOT 2013
AU - Yeh, Chung Wen
AU - Cherng, Rong Ju
AU - Chen, Jenn Yeu
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Population Aging has been a world trend and how to keep the quality of life in old age has also been a popular issue. As one of human's most essential and one of the most sensitive cognitive functions that would be affected by age, scientists or clinics have been trying to find out the solution of age-related decline of 'working memory' for a while. Through early studies, visuospatial working memory (VSWM) is more sensitive to age than verbal working memory (VWM), so the major purpose of this research is to figure out the effect of VSWM training in elders and try to develop a brain fitness software which is suitable for elders. In addition to VSWM tasks, executive function (EF) tests and VWM tests are also chosen to be criterion tests. The result shows that after 10 sessions of training, the training effect is not only found in VSWM performance but also in VWM performance. Statically, EF performance didn't show significantly improves. But the adjusted mean score show that the improvement of training group is still larger than control group. It supports that VSWM training could positive influence the whole cognitive functions of elders to a certain extent.
AB - Population Aging has been a world trend and how to keep the quality of life in old age has also been a popular issue. As one of human's most essential and one of the most sensitive cognitive functions that would be affected by age, scientists or clinics have been trying to find out the solution of age-related decline of 'working memory' for a while. Through early studies, visuospatial working memory (VSWM) is more sensitive to age than verbal working memory (VWM), so the major purpose of this research is to figure out the effect of VSWM training in elders and try to develop a brain fitness software which is suitable for elders. In addition to VSWM tasks, executive function (EF) tests and VWM tests are also chosen to be criterion tests. The result shows that after 10 sessions of training, the training effect is not only found in VSWM performance but also in VWM performance. Statically, EF performance didn't show significantly improves. But the adjusted mean score show that the improvement of training group is still larger than control group. It supports that VSWM training could positive influence the whole cognitive functions of elders to a certain extent.
KW - aging
KW - brain fitness
KW - cognitive training
KW - elder
KW - executive function
KW - verbal working memory
KW - visuospatial working memory
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U2 - 10.1109/ICOT.2013.6521210
DO - 10.1109/ICOT.2013.6521210
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84879852805
SN - 9781467359368
T3 - ICOT 2013 - 1st International Conference on Orange Technologies
SP - 270
EP - 273
BT - ICOT 2013 - 1st International Conference on Orange Technologies
Y2 - 12 March 2013 through 16 March 2013
ER -