Older adults who play digital puzzle games may have improved working memory and concentration abilities equivalent to younger adults in their 20s, a study indicates.

Can training one aspect of the mind, such as memory, improve overall mental sharpness? Researchers conducting a study on healthy college students suggest that such mental cross-training does work ...

So, brain games that aim to improve working-memory capacity do not actually affect working-memory capacity, generally. Instead, people develop good strategies to play the game itself in ways that ...

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Since working memory and attention are critical in winning these games, long-term playing seems to provide the kind of mental exercise that can boost these skills over time.

"It's critical to have good working memory skills," said Susanne Jaeggi, psychology professor and co-director of the Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-Being at Northeastern University.

Working memory is also closely related to “executive function,” the brain’s ability to make a plan and stick with it, an active and fruitful area of psychology with broad social implications.

For instance, some studies have found that brain-training games improve the “executive functions, working memory, and processing speed” of young people, while others hail the benefits of such ...