N‐back training and transfer effects revealed by behavioral responses and EEG

• Published in: Brain and behavior Vol. 8; no. 11; pp. e01136 - n/a
• Main Authors: Pergher, Valentina, Wittevrongel, Benjamin, Tournoy, Jos, Schoenmakers, Birgitte, Van Hulle, Marc M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2018; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adult; Aged; age‐related differences; Attention - physiology; Cognition - physiology; Electroencephalography; Event-Related Potentials, P300 - physiology; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Intelligence - physiology; Male; Memory, Short-Term - physiology; Middle Aged; N‐back task; Older people; Original Research; P300 ERP; Psychotherapy - methods; Reaction Time - physiology; Spatial Memory - physiology; transfer effects; Transfer, Psychology - physiology; working memory training; Young Adult; age-related differences; working memory training; N-back task; transfer effects; P300 ERP

Introduction Cognitive function performance decreases in older individuals compared to young adults. To curb this decline, cognitive training is applied, but it is not clear whether it improves only the trained task or also other cognitive functions. To investigate this, we considered an N‐back work...