One approach to increase memory-training benefits is to target training for the everyday memory tasks for which older adults struggle.
These results indicate that school-led memory training can benefit educationally relevant measures of school performance.
Finally, as suggested by Slagter [ 35], future working memory training studies would benefit from longer training periods (e.g., 25 training sessions) and follow-up measurements to further understand the different shapes of learning curves across different age and genotype groups and to test the stability of training effects over time.
44 But on the contrary, other studies have reported that higher baseline scores were found to be predictive for maintaining benefits of memory training.
Given that the literature in other health domains shows a relationship between compliance and outcome, the immediate and long-term benefits of memory training may also be influenced by compliance with the training regimen.
Thus the benefits of working memory training delivered in this way may not extend beyond structured working memory tasks.
Therefore, we will not be able to isolate the memory training effects from the potential confounding benefits of increased social contact.
For instance, Theill et al 27 investigated the effects of simultaneous memory training and treadmill walking and revealed benefits in cognitive motor dual-task walking compared to a single cognitive training and a passive control group.
Participants who received concurrent cognitive stimulation, therefore, may not benefit from additional memory training in general.
We hypothesize that without concurrent training, participants would benefit more from memory training when compared to those with concurrent training.
We hypothesized that elderly people without any concurrent cognitive stimulation may benefit more from memory training than elderly people with concurrent cognitive stimulation.
