Yang Lixia
Department of Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Front Aging Neurosci. 2022 Jul 1;14:905886. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.905886. eCollection 2022.
This is a follow-up study of our previous work, with a specific goal to examine whether older adults are able to maintain or show delayed cognitive and psychosocial benefits of executive function training and physical exercise over a period of 3.5 years on average. Thirty-four participants from the original training study (17 from the executive function training and 17 from the aerobic exercise group) returned and completed a single follow-up session on a set of cognitive and psychosocial outcome measures. The results of the returned follow-up sample showed some significant original training transfer effects in WCST-64 performance but failed to maintain these benefits at the follow-up session. Surprisingly, episodic memory performance showed some significant improvement at the follow-up relative to baseline, signaling delayed benefits. The findings add some novel implications for cognitive training schedule and highlight the possible importance of continuous engagement in long-term cognitive enhancement in healthy older adults.
这是我们之前工作的一项后续研究，其特定目标是检验老年人在平均3.5年的时间里是否能够维持或展现出执行功能训练和体育锻炼带来的延迟认知和心理社会益处。来自原始训练研究的34名参与者（17名来自执行功能训练组，17名来自有氧运动组）返回并就一系列认知和心理社会结果测量指标完成了一次单独的随访。返回的随访样本结果显示，在威斯康星卡片分类测验-64项（WCST-64）表现方面存在一些显著的原始训练迁移效应，但在随访时未能维持这些益处。令人惊讶的是，情景记忆表现相对于基线在随访时显示出一些显著改善，表明存在延迟益处。这些发现为认知训练计划增添了一些新的启示，并突出了持续参与对健康老年人长期认知增强的可能重要性。
