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The Literacy Engagement group showed increased sentence wrap-up at post-test relative to pre-test (i.e., change was greater than zero), t(30) = 2.05, p = 0.049, d = 0.37 for the ITT analysis, and t(27... 0.800

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

Simplified: Literacy engagement group showed increased sentence wrap-up at post-test relative to pre-test

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The Literacy group showed differential gains in working memory, t(57) = 1.69, p = 0.048 (one-tailed), d = 0.43, and a trend for gains in episodic memory, t(57) = 1.62, p = 0.055 (one-tailed), d = 0.42... 0.800

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

Simplified: Literacy group showed gains in working memory and a trend for gains in episodic memory

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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 🏷️ Lifestyle , Cognition , Neuroscience

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

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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

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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 🏷️ Education , Aging , Cognition

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 🏷️ Lifestyle , Cognition

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 🏷️ Lifestyle , Cognition

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

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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 🏷️ Aging , Cognition , Neuroscience

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

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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 🏷️ Language , Memory , Cognition

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

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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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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 🏷️ Aging , Cognition

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

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Simplified: Crystallized ability increases as a consequence of experience

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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 🏷️ Aging , Cognition

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

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These findings support the idea that the exercise of cognitive capacities in the context of everyday life may offset age-related impairment in areas of cognition engaged by the activity, regardless of... 0.700

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

Simplified: Exercising cognitive capacities in everyday life may offset age-related impairment in engaged areas of cognition

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

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

Simplified: Experimental group showed enhanced conceptual integration in sentence processing

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Relative to the control, the experimental group showed differential improvement in verbal working memory and episodic memory. 0.900

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

Simplified: Experimental group showed improvement in verbal working memory and episodic memory relative to control

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Considerable evidence suggests that language processing depends on memory processes, which are vulnerable to declines with aging. 0.800

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

Simplified: Language processing depends on memory processes vulnerable to declines with aging

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