The other effect in favor of the FTB group, which occurred at 12 months, was increased connectivity in the FP network between the right lateral occipital cortex and the right opercular/insular cortex characterizations of the cognitive role of the interaction Previous between the FP system and the insular cortex have implicated func- tions such as reconfiguration of an attentional set to be maintained over a prolonged task state (Dosenhach ct al., 2006). Another study showed that active learning was involved in enhancement of connectivity in resting state networks reflective of task-relevant regions in the learned task, while connectivity was not affected by mere rote performance of the same learned task (Albert et al., 2009). Thus we may speculate that the effects in favor of the FTB group at 6 months changes related to the skill of inward experience-dependent reflect mental focus. On the other hand, changes specific to 12 months might reflect a learned capacity to switch among various exercises and redis- tributing attention to different aspects of the body and environment for different exercises. This suggests the potential of an FTB interven tion, combined with other aspects of cognitive training, as a method of combined cognitive and physical training. Along a similar vein,to find the optimal strategy for combined cognitive and physical train ing, future research should explore the possibility of order effects for treatments (Kempermann, 2008). Any cognitive training addition should also include aspects of training programs that have shown promise for enabling transfer of learned skills to tasks beyond those specifically trained, such as strategic videogames (Basak et al., 2008),