Self-supervised, mobile-application based cognitive training of auditory attention: A behavioral and fMRI evaluation

Aplicativos para Treino Cognitivo: Uma Revisão Sistemática

“…Por fim, o trabalho de Bless et al (2014) apresentou um aplicativo, em desenvolvimento, de treino cognitivo e de atenção auditiva. O aplicativo, com a utilização de fones de ouvido, explora a atenção auditiva do usuário.…”

“…Estudos demostram que é possível mobilizar, ou até mesmo melhorar, os déficits ocasionados pelo envelhecimento ou por TDAH por meio de treino cognitivo (Buiza et al., 2009;Bless et al, 2014), tendo como foco o treinamento de funções cognitivas (Irigaray et al, 2012).…”

“…Atualmente, muitas pesquisas vêm utilizando tecnologias para o treino cognitivo, como videogames (Torres, 2008;Assis et al, 2015;Martel et al, 2016) e aplicativos móveis (Bless et al, 2014;Caron et al, 2015). Segundo Aranha (2006), muitos destes softwares são desenvolvidos na forma de jogos para ampliar o interesse de seus usuários.…”

Training Cognitive Functions Using Mobile Apps in Breast Cancer Patients: Systematic Review

“…Almost half of the eleven studies (5) were conducted in North America, four of them were performed in the United States of America [24,27,28,31] and one in Canada [32]. Three were conducted in Europe: -two in Italy [29,33] and one in Norway [26]. Two Asian studies were conducted in Taiwan [30] and in Jordan [34].…”

BeMonitored: Monitoring psychophysiology and behavior using Android in phobias

“…Good examples are mobile devices, in particular the smartphones that are becoming a ubiquitous resource, with a huge potential in the psychology field. Yet, validation studies are still lacking (Bless, Westerhausen, Kompus, Gudmundsen, & Hugdahl, 2014;Miller, 2012). Smartphones merge several important properties that have great potential: their cost, when compared to typical laboratory settings (see, e.g., Lee et al, 2012); their availability, allowing a better coverage of the target population; and their adaptability to the environment-to context and participants' behaviors (through targeted application development)-thus providing valuable feedback and assessment, for instance, as a treatment outcome.…”