Playing online brain games can boost seniors' cognitive skills

Playing online brain games can boost seniors' cognitive skills
- August 20, 2019
- Mark Steyvers, cog sci, via Consumer Affairs, Aug. 20, 2019
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According to researchers from the University of California at Irvine, seniors who
play online brain games can boost their cognitive skills to be just as sharp as those
decades younger than them. “The brain is not a muscle, but like our bodies, if we
work out and train it, we can improve our mental performance,” said researcher Mark
Steyvers. “We discovered that people in the upper 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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