Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training increases openness to experience in older adults.

Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training increases openness to experience in older adults.

The present study investigated whether an intervention aimed to increase cognitive ability in older adults also changes the personality trait of openness to experience. Older adults completed a 16-week program in inductive reasoning training supplemented by weekly crossword and Sudoku puzzles. Changes in openness to experience were modeled across four assessments over 30 weeks using latent grow...

Psychology and Aging Can An Old Dog Learn (and Want To Experience) New Tricks? Cognitive Training Increases Openness to Experience in Older Adults

Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? How Older Adults Perceive Embodied Agents

In this experiment we investigate how older adults perceive an embodied agent as compared to younger people in the context of an information giving task. Our results show that older adults found the agent less friendly and likeable than the younger participants in our experiment, and that they had a strong preference for a human presenter. However, the older adults were relatively positive on s...

Can old dogs learn new tricks?

Many of these old adages can’t be traced back to their origins, but the reference to senior dogs and their learning capacity has a documented origin. The source of these well-worn words is an English gentleman named Fitzherbert who wrote a treatise on animal husbandry in 1523. In the cumbersome vernacular of the times, he said that “the dogge must lerne when he is a whelpe, or els it wyl not be...

Assembly Code Visualization and Analysis: An Old Dog CAN Learn New Tricks!

Software engineering practices and tools have had a significant impact on productivity, time to market, comprehension, maintenance and evolution of software in general. Low-level systems have been largely overlooked in this arena, partially due to the complexities they offer and partially due to the inherent “bare bones” nature of the domain. The fact is that anyone can understand a few lines o...