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Cognitive Training and Social Interaction Effects on Cognitive Performance of Older Adults

NCT05016336 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2021-08-26

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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.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Social interaction combined with cognitive training based on mnemonic strategies.

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.

OTHER

Social interaction group

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michal Lavidor, Prof. · Department of Psychology, and the Gonda Brain Research center, Bar Ilan University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-11-18
Primary Completion
2019-02-03
Completion
2019-02-24

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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