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In the interest of examining the effects of literacy engagement among older adults with a wide range in ability, we recruited from the community, assisted living residences, and a local memory clinic,... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Research , Aging

Simplified: Participants were recruited from the community assisted living residences and a local memory clinic

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Based on an a priori power analysis using G*Power (Faul et al., 2007), we originally aimed for a sample size of 88. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Research

Simplified: The study originally aimed for a sample size of 88

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Collectively, this research suggests that reading, an accessible and cost-effective form of activity engagement, (a) can engender a highly active mental state so as to exercise a broad array of cognit... 0.700

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Neuroscience , Lifestyle

Simplified: Reading can exercise cognitive and neural processes and may be self-perpetuating

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Based on data from the Health and Retirement Study, Bavishi et al. (2016) reported that adjusting for education, health, and other covariates, individuals who read books showed a 20% reduction in mort... 0.700

👤 Bavishi et al. (2016) 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Health , Mortality , Aging

Simplified: Reading books showed a 20% reduction in mortality risk over 12 years relative to non-readers

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Reading has long been recognized as a highly active form of mental engagement (Thorndike, 1917; Nell, 1988), but literacy practices have been largely neglected in the quest for cognitive enrichment to... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Lifestyle

Simplified: Reading is a highly active form of mental engagement

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The activity engagement with the most robust consequences for cognitive resilience may be early-life education (Albert et al., 1995; Lövdén et al., 2020). 0.700

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Education , Aging

Simplified: Early-life education may have the most robust consequences for cognitive resilience

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Experimental approaches in which participants are randomly assigned to complex environments (e.g., creative problem solving competition, challenging hobbies, community engagement) have provided clear... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Lifestyle

Simplified: Cognitive abilities can show growth through implicit practice in complex environments

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In contrast to training, engagement involves the implicit exercise of cognitive skills in the course of everyday activities (Stine-Morrow et al., 2014, 2021; Stine-Morrow and Manavbasi, 2022). 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Lifestyle

Simplified: Engagement involves implicit exercise of cognitive skills in everyday activities

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Working memory (WM) training is an especially promising pathway given that a large body of evidence suggests that it is predictive of language comprehension and memory (Daneman and Merikle, 1996), rea... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Memory , Language

Simplified: Working memory training is predictive of language comprehension memory reasoning and fluid ability

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While early models of development focused on plasticity as predominantly a property of young organisms (Waddington, 1942; Gottlieb, 1991), it is now understood that, while perhaps more sluggish with a... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Neuroscience , Aging

Simplified: Plasticity exists throughout the lifespan although more sluggish with aging

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One study of 2089 people estimated that 57% of people aged 18–70 years have enough sleep [24]. 0.500

👤 Elaine Finucane, Ann O’Brien, Shaun Treweek, John Newell, Kishor Das, Sarah Chapman, Paul Wicks, Sandra Galvin, Patricia Healy, Linda Biesty, Katie Gillies, Anna Noel-Storr, Heidi Gardner, Mary Frances O’Reilly, Declan Devane 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Study estimated 57% of people aged 18-70 have enough sleep

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Plasticity refers to the capacity for mind and brain to be shaped by experience. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Neuroscience

Simplified: Plasticity is the capacity for mind and brain to be shaped by experience

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We measured sleep disturbance using the PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System) Short-Form Sleep Disturbance Scale. 0.500

👤 Elaine Finucane, Ann O’Brien, Shaun Treweek, John Newell, Kishor Das, Sarah Chapman, Paul Wicks, Sandra Galvin, Patricia Healy, Linda Biesty, Katie Gillies, Anna Noel-Storr, Heidi Gardner, Mary Frances O’Reilly, Declan Devane 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Sleep disturbance was measured using PROMIS Short-Form Sleep Disturbance Scale

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Even though age-related declines in fluid abilities are normative, there is considerable inter-individual variability in trajectories of change, such that some individuals age quite well (Livingston e... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Aging

Simplified: Age-related declines in fluid abilities are normative but there is inter-individual variability

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Crystallized ability (gc), grounded in knowledge and acculturation, increases as a consequence of experience. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Aging

Simplified: Crystallized ability increases as a consequence of experience

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The other outcomes we measured were sleep disturbance and daytime sleepiness. 0.500

👤 Elaine Finucane, Ann O’Brien, Shaun Treweek, John Newell, Kishor Das, Sarah Chapman, Paul Wicks, Sandra Galvin, Patricia Healy, Linda Biesty, Katie Gillies, Anna Noel-Storr, Heidi Gardner, Mary Frances O’Reilly, Declan Devane 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Sleep disturbance and daytime sleepiness were other outcomes measured

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This was measured using a scale (or questionnaire) called the ‘single item sleep quality scale (SQS) [20]. 0.500

👤 Elaine Finucane, Ann O’Brien, Shaun Treweek, John Newell, Kishor Das, Sarah Chapman, Paul Wicks, Sandra Galvin, Patricia Healy, Linda Biesty, Katie Gillies, Anna Noel-Storr, Heidi Gardner, Mary Frances O’Reilly, Declan Devane 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Sleep quality was measured using single item sleep quality scale

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The main or primary outcome of The Reading Trial was how well people slept, in other words, their overall sleep quality. 0.500

👤 Elaine Finucane, Ann O’Brien, Shaun Treweek, John Newell, Kishor Das, Sarah Chapman, Paul Wicks, Sandra Galvin, Patricia Healy, Linda Biesty, Katie Gillies, Anna Noel-Storr, Heidi Gardner, Mary Frances O’Reilly, Declan Devane 📋 Website Article 🏷️ General

Simplified: Primary outcome of The Reading Trial was overall sleep quality

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Fluid ability (or “mental mechanics”; gf), the ability to quickly transform information and effectively control attention to respond to changing task demands, shows a monotonic decline through adultho... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Aging

Simplified: Fluid ability declines through adulthood due to genetically mediated senescence processes

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The experimental group also showed evidence of enhanced conceptual integration in sentence processing. 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Research Article 🏷️ Cognition , Language , Aging

Simplified: Experimental group showed enhanced conceptual integration in sentence processing

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