Limited Effects of Set Shifting Training in Healthy Older Adults

Our ability to flexibly shift between tasks or task sets declines in older age. As this decline may have adverse effects on everyday life of elderly people, it is of interest to study whether set shifting ability can be trained, and if training effects generalize to other cognitive tasks. Here, we r...

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Main Authors: Petra Grönholm-Nyman, Anna Soveri, Juha O. Rinne, Emilia Ek, Alexandra Nyholm, Anna Stigsdotter Neely, Matti Laine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00069/full