Investigate the effectiveness of neuropsychological exercises in Captain Log's software on improving memory performance of adults

Memory function is essential for storing and coding information, thinking, reasoning, analysis and organization, evaluation and retrieval, and other cognitive and metacognitive activities, but strategies for improving this structure have received less attention in adults; Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of exercises based on psychological neurological skills in Captain Log's software on improving adult memory function.

This study was conducted by quasi-experimental method (pretest-posttest and control group). The statistical population of the study included all adults aged 30 to 60 with memory problems who had referred to psychological clinics in Isfahan in the first half of 2019. The research sample consisted of 30 people from the mentioned community who were selected through convinced sampling and randomly were displaced into two experimental groups (n= 15) and control (n= 15). Assessment’s instrument was Wechsler Memory Scale. Exercises based on psychoneurological skills were performed on Captain Lag during 15 sessions of 60 minutes using the 2014 version of Captain Log's software.

The results of covariance analysis showed efficacy of exercises based on neuropsychological skills in Captain Log's software on memory improvement and its dimensions include personal awareness of daily and personal issues, mental control, logical memory, repetition of forward and reverse numbers, visual memory and memory. Associations have an effect (p <0.05). This method did not affect the awareness of the time and place (orientation) of adults.

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