SOURCES:
Susanne Jaeggi, PhD, associate professor of education, University of California, Irvine.
Benjamin Katz, PhD, assistant professor of human development, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
ClinicalTrials.gov: “ACTIVE: Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE).”
JAMA: “Effects of Cognitive Training Interventions With Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.”
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: “Ten-Year Effects of the ACTIVE Cognitive Training Trial on Cognition and Everyday Functioning in Older Adults.”
University of California Riverside Brain Games Center: “Train My Memory.”
Western University: “What is Working Memory?”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory.”
University of Michigan: “A brain training exercise that really does work.”