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Cognitive plasticity in adulthood and old age: Gauging the generality of cognitive intervention effects

In English

Författare

  • Hannes Noack
  • Martin Lövdén
  • Florian Schmiedek
  • Ulman Lindenberger

Summary, in English

Interventions enabling aging individuals to fulfill their plastic potential promise to postpone, attenuate, or even reverse the adverse effects of senescent brain changes on cognitive abilities and everyday competence in old age. Based on an overview of the concept of plasticity in lifespan development, we selectively review evidence from cognitive intervention studies and conclude that most of them have failed to observe generalizable performance improvements, as documented by the small size and scope of positive transfer to untrained tasks. We further note that generally accepted criteria for defining transfer distance are lacking, rendering the relevant evidence difficult to interpret. Hence, we propose a taxonomy of transfer distance based on the structure of human intellectual abilities.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

435-453

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volym

27

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

IOS Press

Ämne

  • Neurology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1878-3627