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Strategy Based Cognitive Training Effects on Cognitive Performance of Older Adults in a Socially Interactive Learning Group
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Social interaction combined with cognitive training based on mnemonic strategies. and Social interaction group for Cognitive Decline. Completed, enrolled 32 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Aging is associated with a decline in almost all aspects of cognitive functions, particularly memory. Recent research suggests that combining cognitive training with ongoing social interaction may aid in improving cognitive functioning for older adults. Furthermore, accumulative evidence suggests that strategy-based cognitive training may also improve the trainee's memory. In this study, the investigators examined the effects of a combined strategy-based cognitive training and a socially interactive learning method on cognitive performance and transfer effects in older adults.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
In the first six sessions, participants in the experimental group learned and practiced six different mnemonic strategies: Story-Formation strategy, Face-Name strategy, Peg-Word strategy, Chunking strategy, Key-Word strategy and the Method of Loci. In the following six sessions, in order to assimilate the strategies they learned, participants practiced the same tasks.
In the control group, each session also began with a conversation between the participants. The sessions then dealt with the content of interpersonal communication and the acquisition of tools for creating interpersonal relationships. Participants were asked to share the way they used the tools they acquired between sessions and received feedback from the other participants