The effect of computer based cognitive empowerment on active memory performance, attention, language ability, visual-spatial abilities and eloquence and fluency in elderly people

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Rana  Atri Ebrahimpour ¹ (کارشناس‌ارشد روان‌شناسی)
Jalil  Babapour Kheyradin ² (عضو هیئت علمی گروه روانشناسی دانشگاه تبریز)
Mohsen  Ahmadi ³ (عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه تربیت مدرس)

Received: 2016-04-08 Accepted : 2016-04-08 Published : 2013-12-22

Keywords: Attention, computer-based cognitive empowerment, active memory, language ability, spatial/visual ability, eloquence and fluency,

Abstract :

This study aimed at considering the effect of computer-based cognitive empowerment on active memory performance, attention, language ability, visual-spatial abilities and eloquence and fluency in elderly people. This research method was experimental in which cognitive performance (active memory, attention, time of visual / auditory reaction) were taken into account before and after presenting computer-based cognitive empowerment on experimental group for 20 thirty-minute sessions within 8 weeks. Statistical population included elderly people of Khuban sanatorıum of Tabriz with the age range of 60-65. Regarding the experimental the sample included 30 people (15 people for experimental group and 15 people for control group) that were chosen out of the elderly people by available sampling method and were randomly assigned in two groups of experimental and control, and subjects were matched in both groups. The used instruments were computer-based cognitive assignment of brain and cognition sciences center and Aden Brook, revised version test. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequency and descriptive chart and the hypotheses were tested by Covariance Analysis Method. The findings indicated that computer-based cognitive empowerment was effective on cognitive functions (active memory, attention, spatial/ visual).  

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