Enhanced Cognitive Training in a Driving Simulator Improves Cognition in Older Adults

Thursday, November 10, 2022

3:55 PM – 4:11 PM

Presenting Author(s)

Hannes Devos, PhD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Slides

Non-presenting Author(s)

Abiodun E. Akinwuntan, PhD, MPH, MBA

Dean and Professor
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Samuel K. Durairaj, MPT (he/him/his)

Student, PhD in Rehabilitation Science
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Slides
L. Stephen Miller, PhD

Professor Emeritus
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, Georgia, United States

We developed a new cognitive training program in a driving simulator for older adults with normal cognition and those wth cognitive impairments. This cognitive program combines conceptual paradgms from cognitive training, serious gaming, and motor learning to provide high-intensity, interactive, task specific training of multimodal cognition in a virtual reality driving simulator. We present the design of this cognitive training program and the feasibility of in-person training of cognition using a driving simulator for older adults with normal cognition.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to describe the evidence of computerized cognitive training programs in improving cortical activity, cognition, daily life functioning, and quality of life in older adults.
Upon completion, participants will be able to discern the potential advantages of enhanced cognitive training on cortical activity, cognition, daily life functioning, and quality of life in older adults
Upon completion, participants will be able to describe the conceptual paradigms of enhanced cognitive training for older adults
Upon completion, participants will be able to describe preliminary evidence of enhanced cognitive training on cortical activity, cognition, daily life functioning, and quality of life of older adults