Speed-of-processing training transfers to health and functional outcomes including reduced crash risk, improved driving, faster daily-task completion, slower health-related quality-of-life decline, and reduced depression risk¶
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q3 i? Increases in processing speed from training lead to reductions in motor vehicle collision risk, improved on-road driving, decreased reaction time to road signs, reduced time for daily visual activities, slowing of health-related quality-of-life reductions over 24 months, and reduced depression risk. → Owsley Cynthia 2012
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Owsley Cynthia 2012¶
Owsley Cynthia. (2012). Visual Processing Speed. Vision Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2012.11.014
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The review reports that randomized intervention trials show speed-of-processing training transfers to functional outcomes: crash risk reduction, on-road driving improvement, faster road-sign reaction, quicker daily visual activities, slower health-related quality-of-life decline over 24 months, and reduced depression risk. No effect sizes are printed.
"For example, increases in processing speed in older adults have lead to reductions in motor vehicle collision risk (Ball et al., 2010), improved on-road driving performance (Roenker et al., 2003), decreased reaction time to road signs (Roenker et al., 2003), reduced time to perform common visual activities of daily living"
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Related Claims¶
- Speed-of-processing training based on UFOV tasks reduces minimum duration thresholds in older adults, with benefits persisting up to two years — related
- Poorer useful field of view performance in older adults predicts motor vehicle collision risk and difficulties in everyday visual tasks, even after adjustment for sensory and cognitive impairment — related
- Brain games produce statistically significant cognitive performance gains in older adults, but gains are modest and do not detect improvements over control tasks or produce far transfer — related
- Training benefits did not extend to processing speed tasks, indicating specificity to cognitive control processes — related
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Speed-of-processing training transfers to health and functional outcomes including reduced crash risk, improved driving, faster daily-task completion, slower health-related quality-of-life decline, and reduced depression risk |
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Speed-of-processing training transfers to health and functional outcomes including reduced crash risk, improved driving, faster daily-task completion, slower health-related quality-of-life decline, and reduced depress... |
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