Maintaining a healthy brain is a critical factor for the quality of life of elderly individuals and
the preservation of their independence. Challenging aging brains through cognitive training …

Memory systems research has typically described the different types of long-term memory in
the brain as either declarative versus non-declarative or implicit versus explicit. These …

It has been suggested that video game training enhances cognitive functions in young and
older adults. However, effects across studies are mixed. We conducted a meta-analysis to …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Touch plays an important, if often underacknowledged, role in our evaluation/appreciation of
many different products. It is unsurprising, therefore, that there has been such a recent …

Age-related cognitive and brain declines can result in functional deterioration in many
cognitive domains, dependency, and dementia. A major goal of aging research is to …

This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the
touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches …

La atención selectiva permite procesar información relevante mientras suprime la
irrelevante que puede aparecer simultáneamente en el campo visual aunque con …

Tactile memory systems are involved in the storage and retrieval of information about stimuli
that impinge on the body surface and objects that people explore haptically. Here, the …

A major goal of recent research in aging has been to examine cognitive plasticity in older
adults and its capacity to counteract cognitive decline. The aim of the present study was to …