A game-factors approach to cognitive benefits from video-game training: A meta-analysis.
This current study is a meta-analysis conducted on 63 studies on video-game based cognitive interventions (118 investigations, N = 2,079), which demonstrated a moderate and significant training effect on overall gains in cognition, g = 0.25, p < .001. Significant evidence of transfer was found to...
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| description | This current study is a meta-analysis conducted on 63 studies on video-game based cognitive interventions (118 investigations, N = 2,079), which demonstrated a moderate and significant training effect on overall gains in cognition, g = 0.25, p < .001. Significant evidence of transfer was found to overall cognition, as well as to attention/perception and higher-order cognition constructs. Examination of specific gameplay features however showed selective and differential transfer to these outcome measures, whereas the genre labels of "action", "strategy", "casual", and "non-casual" were not similarly predictive of outcomes. We therefore recommend that future video-game interventions targeting cognitive enhancements should consider gameplay feature classification approach over existing genre classification, which may provide more fruitful training-related benefits to cognition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca865eb58e234931837b1e900f1f4b2e2023-09-27T05:31:47ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01188e028592510.1371/journal.pone.0285925A game-factors approach to cognitive benefits from video-game training: A meta-analysis.Evan T SmithChandramallika BasakThis current study is a meta-analysis conducted on 63 studies on video-game based cognitive interventions (118 investigations, N = 2,079), which demonstrated a moderate and significant training effect on overall gains in cognition, g = 0.25, p < .001. Significant evidence of transfer was found to overall cognition, as well as to attention/perception and higher-order cognition constructs. Examination of specific gameplay features however showed selective and differential transfer to these outcome measures, whereas the genre labels of "action", "strategy", "casual", and "non-casual" were not similarly predictive of outcomes. We therefore recommend that future video-game interventions targeting cognitive enhancements should consider gameplay feature classification approach over existing genre classification, which may provide more fruitful training-related benefits to cognition.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285925&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Evan T Smith Chandramallika Basak A game-factors approach to cognitive benefits from video-game training: A meta-analysis. PLoS ONE |
| title | A game-factors approach to cognitive benefits from video-game training: A meta-analysis. |
| title_full | A game-factors approach to cognitive benefits from video-game training: A meta-analysis. |
| title_fullStr | A game-factors approach to cognitive benefits from video-game training: A meta-analysis. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A game-factors approach to cognitive benefits from video-game training: A meta-analysis. |
| title_short | A game-factors approach to cognitive benefits from video-game training: A meta-analysis. |
| title_sort | game factors approach to cognitive benefits from video game training a meta analysis |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285925&type=printable |
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