The study authors also wanted to make sure that book readers weren't living longer just because they were smarter to begin with, so they gave
participants cognition tests at the start of the study and three years later.
Not exact matches
People with mild cognitive impairment were defined as those who have a slight decline in
cognition, mainly in memory in terms of remembering sequences or organization, and who score lower on
tests such as the California Verbal Learning
Test, which requires
participants to recall a list of related words, such as a shopping list.
The authors analyzed data from 1,752
participants (average age 68) in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) who underwent an in - home polysomnography (sleep) study, completed standardized sleep questions, and a battery of
tests to measure their
cognition.
In an effort to examine this possible connection, researchers compared performance on cognitive
tests over time for 706
participants (432 with normal
cognition; 274 AD dementia) from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center database.
Third, two other randomised controlled trials of homocysteine - lowering treatments have shown effects on
cognition: a trial in which normal
participants with baseline tHcy levels > 13 µmol / L were treated with folic acid (0.8 mg / d) for three years showed a beneficial effect on several cognitive
tests [44].
Most recently, they brought 121 of the
participants into the lab for further research — a battery of 17
tests of memory and
cognition — as well as brain MRI scans.
Studies show that
participants who have had no more than twenty - five to fifty hours of exposure and experience playing video games, when
tested after their gameplay, had quicker reaction times to stimuli, achieved better scores in visual discrimination and
cognition tests and, strangely enough, had longer and more focused attention spans that those
participants who did not play video games.