ScienceSilicon Canalsabout 3 hours ago
Study Links Demanding New Skills to Memory Gains
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A 2014 Synapse Project study randomly assigned adults in their sixties and seventies to learn quilting or digital photography for 16.5 hours weekly, finding improved episodic memory versus social or low-demand groups. A 2017 Sala and Gobet meta-analysis of 38 studies found music training's cognitive benefits in children shrank with study quality.
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