期刊
COMPUTERS & EDUCATION
卷 117, 期 -, 页码 50-58出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2017.09.011
关键词
Video games; Executive functions; Cognitive ability; Cognitive training; Digital games
资金
- Institute of Educational Sciences, US Department of Education [R305A150417]
Executive functions (EF), the skills required to plan, monitor and control cognitive processes, are linked to many important educational and developmental outcomes. The Alien Game is a digital game developed to train the EF subskill of shifting. High school students (N = 82; age range 14-18 years; average = 15.5 years) were asked to play the Alien Game for 20 min per week for 6 consecutive weeks. Two EF measures were administered before and after this intervention: the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task (a measure of shifting) and the Flanker task (a measure of inhibition). Students had a significant pre- to posttest increase in DCCS, t (81) = 4.29, p < 0.001, d = 0.54, and Flanker, t (77) = 2.93, p = 0.004, d = 0.22. Controlling for pretest score, gains in shifting were significantly predicted by a measure of game performance in the Alien Game. These findings provide evidence that the Alien Game is having the intended effect of improving EF, and argue that video games can be effective tools for training cognitive skills when they are explicitly designed for this purpose and when a rigorous design approach is used. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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