ABSTRACT
In 2000, S. M. Dowsett and D. J. Livesey showed that healthy preschool children aged three to five were able to improve their inhibitory capacities by repeatedly working on a set of executive tasks. Although the first cognitive training studies in children emerged in the 1980s, applying a training approach with the goal to enhance executive functions in children seems to be a relatively novel approach. The majority of studies on executive functioning training has been conducted in young adults and trained mainly working memory. To better understand which cognitive training promotes executive functions and is in fact beneficial for older adults also, gerontological training research has started to systematically examine moderators that influence the training efficacy. In late adulthood, age seems to play an especially important role. There is a differentiation between young-olds aged 60 to 75 and old-olds aged 75 and above.
