Fitness can improve your memory and your attention
The group of active control showed no benefits statistically significant, according to researcher’s participants that used the program of fitness brain also showed a trend that appeared a setback to ten years younger on average, on the evidence of memory and attention.
Many participants also reported significant improvements in the activities cognitive of everyday life such as remember names or understand talks in restaurants noisy.
“The changes that we have seen in the experimental group were remarkable and significantly higher than the gains in the control group,” said Zelinski.
“From a point of view of the researcher this is very impressive because the people make better the tasks of training and the general improvements of the measures of normalization of the memory and the people it translates into improvements to their lives.
What this means is that the cognitive impairment is no longer an inevitable part of aging, since a design of activities cognitive, you can improve our skills as we age”.
“This study has profound implications personal and public for the aging,” said Joe Coughlin, Director of the Age Lab at the Institute of Technology of Massachusetts.
“This means that may have tools for a future, in which a grandfather of the elderly, have impacts minors in most of the aspects that make to the independent life, from aging, becoming great news, for the future as regards the aging”