Re: Title: Working Memory Training in Older Adults: Evidence of Transfer and Maintenance Effects (8 month follow up)

He makes a lot of money it. Which reminds of donating to BWS next month!

On 5/24/11, whoisbambam <smathern@gmail.com> wrote:
> what pisses me off about studies like this is that they dont give you
> the freakin' program access...........
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> that is what is so glorious about brainworkshop.
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> On May 24, 8:36 am, likeprestige <plastic...@live.com.au> wrote:
>> Title: Working Memory Training in Older Adults: Evidence of Transfer
>> and Maintenance Effects
>>
>> Received 24 March 2010;  revised 12 June 2010;  accepted 17 June
>> 2010.  Available online 7 January 2011
>>
>> Abstract: Few studies have examined working memory (WM) training-
>> related gains and their transfer and maintenance effects in older
>> adults. This present research investigates the efficacy of a verbal WM
>> training program in adults aged 65–75 years, considering specific
>> training gains on a verbal WM (criterion) task as well as transfer
>> effects on measures of visuospatial WM, short-term memory, inhibition,
>> processing speed, and fluid intelligence. Maintenance of training
>> benefits was evaluated at 8-month follow-up. Trained older adults
>> showed higher performance than did controls on the criterion task and
>> maintained this benefit after 8 months. Substantial general transfer
>> effects were found for the trained group, but not for the control one.
>> Transfer maintenance gains were found at follow-up, but only for fluid
>> intelligence and processing speed tasks. The results are discussed in
>> terms of cognitive plasticity in older adults.
>>
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>> This study has been brought up before but is this study listed in the
>> FAQ? - I'm unaware as to whether or not it's been included, however, I
>> would have thought this kind of study would be a prime candidate in
>> terms of making its 'visual availability' quite obvious, but that
>> doesn't seem to be the case.
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