2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Cognitively Stimulating Activities for Successful Aging: Searching for New Pathways
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17F17313
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
権藤 恭之 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (40250196)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SALA GIOVANNI 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-11-10 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | Cognition / Aging |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the last 18 months (November 2017-April 2019), several projects have been completed. The study of cognitive-training (with a special focus on older adults) have yielded five papers, three of them already published or accepted and two currently under review.
We have replaced the project of the meta-analyses on the impact of the expertise on cognitive reserve with a set of structural models investigating the structure of human cognition in the elderly. We are about to finalize and submit a paper.
As planned, we have written and submitted a paper using structural modelling to describe the impact of leisure activities on older people cognitive function.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
In these first 18 months, we have made substantial progress in all the parts of the project (three projects out of five have been completed). We also have managed to submit and publish several papers (see section 10) and others are in preparations.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Fininshing the two parts of the project that are still a work-in-progress: (a) collecting all the needed data of our empirical study (Igo players’ cognitive skills); and (b) analysing the dataset of Igo players.
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