There are more than 30 performances in this year’s talent competition. “Otherwise, if she has spare time, she will (say) ‘Oh! I’m hurt here, hurt there.’ So it kind of moves her mind to the healthy way.” Her family thinks her involvement with music is time well spent. They are waiting for a show to begin.Ĭhing Fen Wang is playing a love song on a traditional Chinese string instrument. The two women are sitting in a meeting room at a home for the aging in Los Angeles, California. “She says that she is little bit nervous, but hopes everything turns out but, in case something happens, just forgive me, she says. Ninety-five-year-old Ching Fen Wang waited months for this moment, her daughter says. Just ask the senior citizens who recently competed at the 13 th Annual Senior Talent Show. Song and dance might be another way to keep the brain and spirit in good shape. I’m Caty Weaver.Ĭhing Fen Wang, 95, and her daughter at a Senior Center talent show in Los Angeles. You are listening to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Gazzaley says his team is working on developing more video games for people suffering from depression and attention deficit disorder. But he says it is possible some target shooting games could help seniors in ways similar to NeuroRacer. The researcher says he would not urge senior citizens go buy any one video game currently selling in stores. And also working memory, their ability to hold something in mind for a short period of time and then be able to respond to it rapidly and accurately…that also improved.” “…like sustained attention, which is vigilance, ability to hold your attention to something that’s very boring and respond to it rapidly and accurately, that that improved selectively in this group. And he says it was useful in other mental areas, like attentiveness and memory.
He says the volunteers’ strengthened brain power continued for six months. And that’s better than the 20 year-olds that had a performance drop in the 27 percent range.”Īdam Gazzaley says there was one especially striking finding. After training, they only have a 16 percent drop in performance. “Before training, they had a 65 percent drop in performance when they do the two tasks versus one task. He says there was a striking improvement in multi-tasking ability among the adults who played three times a week. They compared it to how the participants did when the second task of reading signs was added.Īdam Gazzaley was the lead investigator. They looked at how well the study participants did when the game was just racing the car. Others played it without signs appearing on the screen.Īfter about a month, the researchers tested the volunteers. The other volunteers received different orders. About 15 people aged 60 to 85 were told to play NeuroRacer three times a week for an hour at a time. The researchers tested more than 170 volunteers of all ages. The players learn to pay attention to the important signs and ignore the others. Some signs are important messages connected to the game. Signs begin to appear and disappear on part of the video screen. Later, another level is added to the game. Players use a hand-held controller to race a car on a video projection screen.
It was a creation of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco. The researchers say senior citizens who play a “multi-tasking” game experience neurological improvements. Scientists have developed a video game for older adults to help sharpen their memory and attention to details.
Today we tell you about two ways old people might fight the effects of aging. And, as we age, we are also more likely to develop depression and anxiety disorders.
Brain processes, like memory, can also weaken. As we age we seem to slow down physically. From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is.
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