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work_x4iad7n5k5glrdl2rc7kkfxj6y	Denise C. Park	The Impact of Sustained Engagement on Cognitive Function in Older Adults	2013.0	11	.pdf	application/pdf	6570	670	57	The Impact of Sustained Engagement on Cognitive Function in Older Adults: The Synapse Project In the research reported here, we tested the hypothesis that sustained engagement in learning new skills that activated In three conditions with high cognitive demands, participants learned to quilt, learned digital photography, which participants either engaged in nonintellectual activities with a social group or performed low-demand cognitive social condition, in which participants engaged in on-site, social control group has been a serious limitation of previous lifestyle-engagement studies; including such a condition allowed us to determine the role that social each cognitive measure by pooling the two scores (pretest and posttest) for each participant across all experimental conditions and applying an inverse-normal skill improved episodic memory and no evidence suggesting that socializing, information exchange, and novelty alone facilitated cognitive function. that participants in the photo and dual conditions exhibited a significant improvement in episodic memory, 	./cache/work_x4iad7n5k5glrdl2rc7kkfxj6y.pdf	./txt/work_x4iad7n5k5glrdl2rc7kkfxj6y.txt