Executive Functions in Digital Games

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Author(s): Elizabeth Boyle (University of the West of Scotland, UK), Melody M. Terras (University of the West of Scotland, UK), Judith Ramsay (University of the West of Scotland, UK)and James M. E. Boyle (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 28
Source title: Leadership and Personnel Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9624-2.ch025

Keywords: Administration & Leadership / Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Management Science

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Despite enhanced appreciation of the nature and scope of the cognitive advantages of playing games, our understanding of the actual mechanisms responsible for generating and maintaining these remains limited. In this chapter, the authors propose that viewing these changes from the information processing perspective of executive functions will help to elucidate the psychological infrastructure that underpins these gains. They apply Anderson's model of executive functions to understanding how games support visual-perceptual processing and higher-level thinking and problem solving. As well as extending our appreciation of how digital games can support learning, research on executive functions highlights the implications of the limitations of our cognitive systems for game design.

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