Short video game play improves executive function in the oldest old living in residential care
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Highlights：
• Short video game play influences executive function in oldest-old.
• Participants aged 80–97 years were cognitively healthy, living in residential care.
• Experimental group played an action video game with pre, post and follow-up tests.
• Visual attention and task switching improved and persisted at follow-up.
• Working memory improved after game play but regressed toward baseline at follow-up.
摘要
•Short video game play influences executive function in oldest-old.•Participants aged 80–97 years were cognitively healthy, living in residential care.•Experimental group played an action video game with pre, post and follow-up tests.•Visual attention and task switching improved and persisted at follow-up.•Working memory improved after game play but regressed toward baseline at follow-up.
论文关键词：Video games,Elderly,Executive function,Visual attention,Task switching,Residential aged care
论文评审过程：Received 2 September 2019, Revised 8 January 2020, Accepted 6 March 2020, Available online 9 March 2020, Version of Record 16 March 2020.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106337
