Fostering cognitive performance in older adults with a process- and a strategy-based cognitive training

Abstract

The present study investigates the impact of process-based and strategy-based cognitive training to boost performance in healthy older adults. Three groups trained with either a dichotic listening training (process-based training, n = 25), an implementation intention strategy training (strategy-based training, n = 23), or served as a non-contact control group (n = 30). Our results demonstrated that training participants improved their performance in the trained tasks (process-based training: d = 3.01, strategy-based training: d = 2.6). For untrained tasks, the process-based training group showed significant working memory (d =.58) as well as episodic memory task improvement (d = 1.19) compared to the strategy-based training and to the non-contact control group (all d