Working memory updating function training influenced brain activity.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24015182.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0071063 and PMC identifier 3754993.
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Abstract
Recent studies demonstrated that working memory could be improved by training. We recruited healthy adult participants and used adaptive running working memory training tasks with a double-blind design, combined with the event-related potentials (ERPs) approach, to explore the influence of updating function training on brain activity. Participants in the training group underwent training for 20 days. Compared with the control group, the training group's accuracy (ACC) in the two-back working memory task had no significant differences after training, but reaction time (RT) was reduced significantly. Besides, the amplitudes of N160 and P300 increased significantly whereas that of P200 decreased significantly. The results suggest that training could have improved the participants' capacity on both inhibitory and updating.
Medical subject headings
- Learning
- Memory, Short-Term