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How Do Cognitively Stimulating Activities Affect Cognition and the Brain Throughout Life?

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Mather, Mara·2020·Psychological Science in the Public Interest

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  • The beneficial association between early reading for pleasure and cognitive development may partly be due to cognitive enrichment.

    “This may partly be due to cognitive enrichment (Mather, 2020; Milgram, Siwak-Tapp, Araujo, & Head, 2006; Oveisgharan, Wilson, Yu, Schneider, & Bennett, 2020)”

    From Early-Initiated Childhood Reading for Pleasure: Associations with Better Cognitive Performance, Mental Well-being and Brain Structure in Young Adolescence (2024) · cites this paper as Mather, 2020

    In the opening section, Mather says that cognitively stimulating experiences early in life are associated with later cognitive benefits. The examples are education and bilingualism; the paper does not specifically address reading for pleasure or establish cognitive enrichment as the explanation for its association with cognitive development. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Mather, M.
Affiliations
University of Southern California (US)
Corresponding author
Mather, Mara
Venue
Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Published
2020-08
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
1-5
ISSN
  • 1539-6053 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-1006
OpenAlex
W3048727440
Cited by
36
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 3
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Gothic.net (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Aging (R01AG025340)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
Keywords
cognitively stimulating activities, cognitive aging, brain development, cognitive stimulation
MeSH terms
Aging, Cognition, Cognition Disorders, Educational Status, Humans, Early Intervention, Educational, Cognitive Reserve

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