Liisa Ritakallio

TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale pre-registered randomized controlled trial (n = 255) used a 4-week adaptive working memory training with a single digit n-back task.

TL;DR: This study indicates that patients with mild-to-moderate PD can self-administer home-based computerised WM training, and that they yield a similar transfer pattern to untrained WM tasks as has been observed in healthy older adults.

TL;DR: The results showed that higher levels of COVID-19-related anxiety during the first weeks of the pandemic outbreak were associated with poorer WM performance as measured by the n-back paradigm, which could not be explained by demographic factors, or other psychological factors such as state and trait anxiety or fluid intelligence.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that WM has a rather limited role in the clinical manifestation of PD, and the updating component of WM could be a candidate for a cognitive marker of PD also in patients who are otherwise cognitively well-preserved.

TL;DR: In this paper , a pre-registered study examined psychometric features of a new EPELI adult online version, modified from the original child version and further developed for self-administered web-based testing at home.