Emotionally Arousing Sounds Increase Short-Term Recall of High Contrast Visual Stimuli in Younger and Older Adults

Abstract Interventions using exercise video games, or exergames, have shown short-term cognitive and physical benefits to older adults, though long-term effects are less promising. Enjoyment of exergames may promote exergame use after the intervention period, though little work has examined older adults’ views of exergames before and after gameplay experience. We invited 20 older adults between 65 and 84 years of age (M=73.30, SD=5.95) to play two Xbox Kinect games, Just Dance and Kinect Sports Rivals, for twenty minutes. In our presentation, we will present qualitative and quantitative findings of this pilot study, including findings that older adults reported that they were not likely to play similar exergames in the future and that they did not find the exergames to be more fun compared to other ways of exercising. We will discuss implications for game design and research relevant to game developers, manufacturers, and researchers. Part of a symposium sponsored by Technology and Aging Interest Group.

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Evaluating the Feasibility and Effects of a Short-Term Task Specific Power Training With and Without Cognitive Training Among Older Adults With Slow Gait Speed: A Pilot Study

Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation ◽

10.1016/j.arrct.2021.100118 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 100118

Author(s):

Elisa F. Ogawa ◽

Rebekah Harris ◽

Joseph M. DeGutis ◽

Rachel E. Ward ◽

Jennifer S. Brach ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Cognitive Training ◽

Gait Speed ◽

Specific Power ◽

Power Training ◽

Short Term

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Short-term resistance training in older adults improves muscle quality: A randomized control trial

Experimental Gerontology ◽

10.1016/j.exger.2020.111195 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 145 ◽

pp. 111195

Author(s):

Ashley A. Herda ◽

Omid Nabavizadeh

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Resistance Training ◽

Randomized Control Trial ◽

Muscle Quality ◽

Short Term ◽

Randomized Control

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Short-term Effects of Whole-Body Vibration on Functional Mobility and Flexibility in Healthy, Older Adults

Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy ◽

10.1519/jpt.0b013e318295dacd ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 58-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Taishi Tsuji ◽

Naruki Kitano ◽

Kenji Tsunoda ◽

Erika Himori ◽

Tomohiro Okura ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Whole Body Vibration ◽

Functional Mobility ◽

Whole Body ◽

Short Term ◽

Healthy Older Adults ◽

Body Vibration ◽

Short Term Effects

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Lower verbalizability of visual stimuli modulates differences in estimates of working memory capacity between children with and without developmental language disorders

Autism & Developmental Language Impairments ◽

10.1177/2396941520945519 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 239694152094551

Author(s):

Seçkin Arslan ◽

Lucie Broc ◽

Fabien Mathy

Keyword(s):

Working Memory ◽

Visual Memory ◽

Language Disorder ◽

Working Memory Capacity ◽

Visual Stimuli ◽

Memory Capacity ◽

Typically Developing ◽

Developmental Language Disorder ◽

Typically Developing Children ◽

Short Term

Background and aims Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often perform below their typically developing peers on verbal memory tasks. However, the picture is less clear on visual memory tasks. Research has generally shown that visual memory can be facilitated by verbal representations, but few studies have been conducted using visual materials that are not easy to verbalize. Therefore, we attempted to construct non-verbalizable stimuli to investigate the impact of working memory capacity. Method and results We manipulated verbalizability in visual span tasks and tested whether minimizing verbalizability could help reduce visual recall performance differences across children with and without developmental language disorder. Visuals that could be easily verbalized or not were selected based on a pretest with non-developmental language disorder young adults. We tested groups of children with developmental language disorder (N = 23) and their typically developing peers (N = 65) using these high and low verbalizable classes of visual stimuli. The memory span of the children with developmental language disorder varied across the different stimulus conditions, but critically, although their storage capacity for visual information was virtually unimpaired, the children with developmental language disorder still had difficulty in recalling verbalizable images with simple drawings. Also, recalling complex (galaxy) images with low verbalizability proved difficult in both groups of children. An item-based analysis on correctly recalled items showed that higher levels of verbalizability enhanced visual recall in the typically developing children to a greater extent than the children with developmental language disorder. Conclusions and clinical implication: We suggest that visual short-term memory in typically developing children might be mediated with verbal encoding to a larger extent than in children with developmental language disorder, thus leading to poorer performance on visual capacity tasks. Our findings cast doubts on the idea that short-term storage impairments are limited to the verbal domain, but they also challenge the idea that visual tasks are essentially visual. Therefore, our findings suggest to clinicians working with children experiencing developmental language difficulties that visual memory deficits may not necessarily be due to reduced non-verbal skills but may be due to the high amount of verbal cues in visual stimuli, from which they do not benefit in comparison to their peers.

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