Publications by authors named "Joshua J Volponi"
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- Older adults are keen to preserve their attention abilities for better quality of life, and combining cognitive and physical fitness interventions shows promise in this area.
- A new video game called Body-Brain Trainer (BBT) was developed to provide a personalized training experience that enhances both cognitive and physical demands for seniors.
- After two months of using BBT, older participants showed significant improvements in attention and physical fitness, even surpassing the performance of younger adults and maintaining these benefits for at least a year.
Attention is a fundamental cognitive process that is critical for essentially all aspects of higher-order cognition and real-world activities. Younger generations have deeply embraced information technology and multitasking in their personal lives, school and the workplace, creating myriad challenges to their attention. While improving sustained attention in healthy young adults would be beneficial, enhancing this ability has proven notoriously difficult in this age group.
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