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| Title |
Educational games for brain health: revealing their unexplored potential through a neurocognitive approach
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, July 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01056 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Patrick Fissler, Iris-Tatjana Kolassa, Claudia Schrader |
| Abstract |
Educational games link the motivational nature of games with learning of knowledge and skills. Here, we go beyond effects on these learning outcomes. We review two lines of evidence which indicate the currently unexplored potential of educational games to promote brain health: First, gaming with specific neurocognitive demands (e.g., executive control), and second, educational learning experiences (e.g., studying foreign languages) improve brain health markers. These markers include cognitive ability, brain function, and brain structure. As educational games allow the combination of specific neurocognitive demands with educational learning experiences, they seem to be optimally suited for promoting brain health. We propose a neurocognitive approach to reveal this unexplored potential of educational games in future research. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 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 States | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 94 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 91 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 6% |
| Researcher | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 25 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 21 | 22% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 9% |
| Computer Science | 7 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 28 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 09 September 2021.
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