Memory Training for Older Adults with Low Education: Mental Images Versus Categorization

Silva, Henrique Salmazo da; Yassuda, Mônica Sanches

doi:10.1080/03601270902782487

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“…Therefore, cognitive training may induce more cognitive plasticity and greater transfer for HA, when compared with MCI, because cognitive plasticity is argued to be compromised by lower mental status (Calero & Navarro, 2004; Fernández-Ballesteros et al, 2012). Some studies however have reported in greater cognitive gains from cognitive training in individuals with lower cognitive ability (e.g., processing speed training, Ball, Ross, Roth, & Edwards, 2013; imagery training in HA, da Silva & Yassuda, 2009; strategy videogame training using videogames in young, Boot, Sumner, Towne, Rodriguez, & Anders Ericsson, 2017). Because adults with MCI have lower cognitive ability compared with healthy older adults, and many cognitive training studies have reported significant effects in MCI (for a review, see Li et al, 2011), it is plausible that cognitive training may be more effective in MCI participants.…”

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Differential effects of cognitive training modules in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment: A comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Basak

Qin

O’Connell

2020

Psychology and Aging

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This meta-analysis was designed to compare the effectiveness of 2 cognitive training modules, singlecomponent training, which targets 1 specific cognitive ability, versus multicomponent training, which trains multiple cognitive abilities, on both trained abilities (near transfer) and untrained abilities (far transfer) in older adults. The meta-analysis also assessed whether individual differences in mental status interacted with the extent of transfer. Eligible randomized controlled trials (215 training studies) examined the immediate effects of cognitive training in either healthy aging (HA) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Results yielded an overall net-gain effect size (g) for the cognitive training of 0.28 (p Ͻ .001). These effects were similar across mental status and training modules, and were significant for both near (g ϭ 0.37) and far (g ϭ 0.22) transfer. Although all training modules yielded significant near transfer, only a few yielded significant far transfer. Single-component training of executive functions was most effective on near and far transfer, with processing speed training improving everyday functioning. All modules of multicomponent training (specific and nonspecific) yielded significant near and far transfer, including everyday functioning. Training effects on cognition were moderated by educational attainment and number of cognitive outcomes, but only in HA. These findings suggest that, in older adults, all modules of multicomponent training are more effective in engendering near and far transfer, including everyday functioning, when compared with single-component training modules.

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Section: Cognitive Training and Mental Statusmentioning

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Differential effects of cognitive training modules in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment: A comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Basak

Qin

O’Connell

2020

Psychology and Aging

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“…To illustrate, most trials had participants with a high level of schooling (M = 12.67 years), and most of trials had younger older adults as participants (M = 69.55). Therefore, additional studies with older populations and participants with lower levels of schooling are needed (e.g., da Silva and Yassuda, 2009;Santos Golino et al, 2016).…”

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Reviewing working memory training gains in healthy older adults: A meta-analytic review of transfer for cognitive outcomes

Teixeira-Santos

Moreira

Magalhães

et al. 2019

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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We performed a multilevel meta-analytic review, complemented with both sensitivity analysis and robust variance estimation (RVE) method, to systematically assess the effects of working memory training on healthy older adults.  We found small significant gains on verbal and visuospatial working memory, however the effects were maintained at follow-up only for verbal working memory.  Far-transfer effects were not verified, except for the studies whose Cattell Test was used to assess reasoning.  The effects of working memory training were moderated by the adopted measures, type of training, training length and duration, and baseline performance.  Moderator analysis did not show the influence of type of control group (active versus passive), except for one comparison: visuospatial WM at posttest.

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“…It is important to highlight that, in this study, both groups (MEMO and Stimullus) attended group interventions and already had low levels of depressive symptoms at the beginning of the intervention. Thus, other studies may test what is the most favorable training for reducing depressive symptoms in healthy elderly individuals, in order to test if the strategies taught influence depressive symptoms, as in the study by Salmazo- Silva and Yassuda (2009), in which the group of illiterate elderly individuals who trained mental images had fewer depressive symptoms than the group that trained categorization.…”

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“…National and international studies have documented that, in addition to gains in cognitive performance, cognitive interventions can yield promising results in measures of well-being and quality of life in the elderly with reduced depressive symptoms (Brum, Forlenza, Yassuda, 2009;Chariglione & Janczura, 2013;Salmazo-Silva & Yassuda, 2009) and maintaining or increasing quality of life (Fernández-Prado, Conlon, Mayán-Santos, & Gandoy-Crego, 2012;Irigaray, Schneider, & Gomes, 2014;Reijnders, Van-Heugten, & Van-Boxtel, 2013;Wolinsky et al, 2006a;Wolinsky et al, 2006b).…”

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Cognitive interventions and performance measures: a longitudinal study in elderly women

Chariglione

Silva

Melo

et al. 2020

Estud. psicol. (Campinas)

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Several types of cognitive interventions have been performed with elderly individuals to verify physical and quality of life benefits. The objective of this study was to verify if the cognitive gains found in two cognitive intervention programs are related to changes in the mood, quality of life and physical fitness variables (maximum oxygen consumption, lean mass, fat percentage and handgrip strength). A total of 39 elderly women from the Distrito Federal (Brazil), participating in a cognitive training group based on mnemonic strategies and a group of cognitive stimulation based on perceptual and attention exercises. Both groups showed a tendency to reduce depressive symptoms, an increase in their fat mass and a decrease in their lean mass. Taken together, these findings may contribute to identify the directionality of mnemonic interventions in Brazilian elderly individuals regarding the subjective and physical performance variables.

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Memory Training for Older Adults with Low Education: Mental Images Versus Categorization

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Differential effects of cognitive training modules in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment: A comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Differential effects of cognitive training modules in healthy aging and mild cognitive impairment: A comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Reviewing working memory training gains in healthy older adults: A meta-analytic review of transfer for cognitive outcomes

Cognitive interventions and performance measures: a longitudinal study in elderly women

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