Brain game exercises can enable people in their 70s and even 80s to multitask cognitively
Brain game exercises can enable people in their 70s and even 80s to multitask cognitively
- August 19, 2019
- Mark Steyvers, cog sci, Health News Report, Aug. 19, 2019
"The brain is not a muscle, but like our bodies, if we work out and train it, we can improve our mental performance," said lead author Mark Steyvers, a UCI professor of cognitive sciences. "We discovered that people in the upper age ranges who completed specific training tasks were able to beef up their brain's ability to switch between tasks in the game at a level similar to untrained 20- and 30-year-olds."
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