title: Enhancing Cognitive Function Using Perceptual-Cognitive Training.
abstract: Three-dimensional multiple object tracking (3D-MOT) is a perceptual-cognitive training system based on a 3D virtual environment. This is the first study to examine the effects of 3D-MOT training on attention, working memory, and visual information processing speed as well as using functional brain imaging on a normative population. Twenty university-aged students were recruited and divided into a training (NT) and nonactive control (CON) group. Cognitive functions were assessed using neuropsychological tests, and correlates of brain functions were assessed using quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG). Results indicate that 10 sessions of 3D-MOT training can enhance attention, visual information processing speed, and working memory, and also leads to quantifiable changes in resting-state neuroelectric brain function.
authors.affiliation: School of Optometry, Univeristé de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada psybrendan@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Brendan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Parsons
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Tara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Magill
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boucher
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Katrine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zogbo
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bérubé
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Scheffer
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beauregard
authors.affiliation: School of Optometry, Univeristé de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Jocelyn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Faubert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D065855:Spatial Processing / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Multiple object tracking (MOT); attention; brain training; cognitive enhancement; qEEG