Improving Cognitive Function from Children to Old Age: A Systematic Review of Recent Smart Ageing Intervention Studies

Table 3

Summary of cognitive functional measures in the included studies.

Full name	Studies
General cognitive functions/IQ
Minimental state examination	Uchida and Kawashima [66]	Nouchi et al. [45]
Raven’s advanced progressive matrices test	Nouchi et al. [47]	Takeuchi et al. [38]	Takeuchi et al. [62]	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
Cattell culture fair test	Takeuchi et al. [38]
Tanaka B type intelligence test	Takeuchi et al. [38]	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
Bochumer Matrizen test	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
Kyodai SX test	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
Executive functions
Frontal assessment battery	Uchida and Kawashima [66]	Nouchi et al. [45]
Trail making test	Nouchi et al. [45]	Takeuchi et al. [62]
Wisconsin card sorting test	Nouchi et al. [47]
Stroop test	Nouchi et al. [47]	Nouchi et al. [65]	Takeuchi et al. [38]	Takeuchi et al. [62]	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
Verbal fluency task	Nouchi et al. [65]
Episodic memory
Logical memory	Nouchi et al. [65]
First and second names	Nouchi et al. [65]
Working memory/short-term memory
Digit (letter) span	Nouchi et al. [45]	Nouchi et al. [47]	Nouchi et al. [65]	Takeuchi et al. [38]	Takeuchi et al. [62]	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
Operation span	Nouchi et al. [47]
Letter-number sequence	Nouchi et al. [47]
Arithmetic	Nouchi et al. [47]	Takeuchi et al. [62]
Spatial span	Nouchi et al. [47]	Takeuchi et al. [38]	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
Attention
Digit cancellation task	Nouchi et al. [45]	Nouchi et al. [47]	Nouchi et al. [65]
Simple reaction task	Nouchi et al. [47]
Processing speed
Symbol coding	Uchida and Kawashima [66]	Nouchi et al. [45, 71, 72]	Nouchi et al. [47]	Nouchi et al. [65]	Takeuchi et al. [62]
Symbol search	Nouchi et al. [45]	Nouchi et al. [47]	Nouchi et al. [65]
Others
Japanese reading test	Nouchi et al. [47]	Nouchi et al. [65]
Mental rotation	Nouchi et al. [47]	Takeuchi et al. [62]
Simple arithmetic	Takeuchi et al. [38]	Takeuchi et al. [62]	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
Complex arithmetic	Takeuchi et al. [38]	Takeuchi et al. [62]	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]
S-A creativity test	Takeuchi et al. [38]	Takeuchi et al. [62]	Takeuchi et al. [63]	Takeuchi et al. [64]

Takeuchi et al. [38], who used processing speed training, published their findings in Journal of Neuroscience. Takeuchi et al. [62], who used working memory training with mental calculation, published their findings in PLoS One.