von Bastian, C.C. orcid.org/0000-0002-0667-2460, Hyde, E.R.A. and Jiang, S. (2024) Tackling cognitive decline in late adulthood: cognitive interventions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 56. 101780. ISSN 2352-250X
Abstract
Affordable and easy-to-administer interventions such as cognitive training, cognitively stimulating everyday leisure activities, and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, are promising avenues to counteract age-related cognitive decline and support people in maintaining cognitive health into late adulthood. However, the same pattern of findings emerges across all three fields of cognitive intervention research: whereas improvements within the intervention context are large and often reliable, generalisation to other cognitive abilities and contexts are severely limited. These findings suggest that while cognitive interventions can enhance the efficiency with which people use their existing cognitive capacity, these interventions are unlikely to expand existing capacity limits. Therefore, future research investigating generalisation of enhanced efficiency constitutes a promising avenue for developing reliably effective cognitive interventions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Cognitive aging; Cognitive training; Lifestyle engagement; Non-invasive brain stimulation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/V013610/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2024 12:52 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2024 12:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101780 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208915 |