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| Title |
Video Games as a Means to Reduce Age-Related Cognitive Decline: Attitudes, Compliance, and Effectiveness
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00031 |
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| Authors |
Walter R. Boot, Michael Champion, Daniel P. Blakely, Timothy Wright, Dustin J. Souders, Neil Charness |
| Abstract |
Recent research has demonstrated broad benefits of video game play to perceptual and cognitive abilities. These broad improvements suggest that video game-based cognitive interventions may be ideal to combat the many perceptual and cognitive declines associated with advancing age. Furthermore, game interventions have the potential to induce higher rates of intervention compliance compared to other cognitive interventions as they are assumed to be inherently enjoyable and motivating. We explored these issues in an intervention that tested the ability of an action game and a "brain fitness" game to improve a variety of abilities. Cognitive abilities did not significantly improve, suggesting caution when recommending video game interventions as a means to reduce the effects of cognitive aging. However, the game expected to produce the largest benefit based on previous literature (an action game) induced the lowest intervention compliance. We explain this low compliance by participants' ratings of the action game as less enjoyable and by their prediction that training would have few meaningful benefits. Despite null cognitive results, data provide valuable insights into the types of video games older adults are willing to play and why. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 35 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 8 | 23% |
| United States | 7 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 6% |
| Unknown | 10 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 23 | 66% |
| Scientists | 7 | 20% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 264 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 4 | 2% |
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 248 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 52 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 39 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 37 | 14% |
| Researcher | 30 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 7% |
| Other | 44 | 17% |
| Unknown | 43 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 102 | 39% |
| Computer Science | 20 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 12 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 45 | 17% |
| Unknown | 57 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 October 2020.
All research outputs
#1,488,145
of 25,002,811 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#3,045
of 33,774 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,258
of 293,054 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#148
of 969 outputs
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