Examining the Mechanisms of Immersive Computerized Training Interventions for Old

检查老年人沉浸式计算机化培训干预机制

• 批准号: 8582347
• 负责人: JASON C. ALLAIRE
• 金额: $ 22.18万
• 依托单位: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8582347
• 关键词: Affect; Attention; Blood Pressure; Cognition; Cognitive; Competence; Control Groups; Custom; Educational Intervention; Effectiveness; Elderly; Freedom; Goals; Gophers; Health; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Longevity; Maps; Measures; Memory; Monitor; Participant; Pattern; Performance; Play; Psychological Transfer; Questionnaires; Relative (related person); Reliance; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Sensitivity Training Groups; Stress; System; Task Performances; Taxes; Testing; Time; Training; Video Games; Vision; Wing; Work; cognitive function; computerized; digital; executive function; experience; group intervention; improved; improved functioning; processing speed; public health relevance

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A growing body of research suggests that playing commercially available digital games (CADGS) improves specific cognitive abilities in young (Green & Bavelier, 2003, 2007) and older adults (Basak, Boot, Vass, & Kramer, 2008; Whitlock, McLaughlin, & Allaire, 2012). However, due to a lack of control over the content, the underlying mechanisms responsible for gains in cognition are not clear. Recently researchers (Basak et al., 2008) have suggested that CADGS provide an opportunity for Variable Priority Training (VPT; Kramer, Larish, Weber, & Bardell, 1999) and that VPT is the mechanism responsible for gains. Research explicitly examining VPT in digital games has been limited, but the few VPT-digital game studies have reported significant although not robust cognitive benefits (Lee, Boot, Basak, et al., 2012).The absence of transfer effects to executive control is perhaps due to the singular reliance by previous studies on the game Space Fortress. The subtasks of Space Fortress draw upon a limited number of cognitive abilities, which in a VPT approach, might not tax the attentional demands of the executive system enough to produce training gains. Therefore, the goal of this intervention study is to combine the dynamic complexity of CADGS with the experimental control of previous VPT-digital game studies by utilizing the powerful "game editor" included in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty to test a VPT-digital game intervention focused on multiple cognitive abilities.

描述（由申请人提供）：越来越多的研究表明，玩商业数字游戏（CADGS）可以提高年轻人（绿色和Bavelier，2003年，2007年）和老年人（Basak，靴子，Vass和克雷默，2008年; Whitlock，McLaughlin和Allaire，2012年）的特定认知能力。然而，由于缺乏对内容的控制，认知能力提高的潜在机制尚不清楚。最近研究人员（Basak等人，2008）建议，CADGS提供了一个机会，可变优先级培训（VPT;克雷默，Larish，韦伯，& Bardell，1999）和VPT是负责增益的机制。明确检查数字游戏中的VPT的研究有限，但少数VPT-数字游戏研究报告了显着但不稳健的认知益处（Lee，靴子，Basak等人，2012).转移效应的执行控制的情况下，可能是由于奇异的依赖，以前的研究对游戏空间堡垒。太空堡垒的子任务利用有限数量的认知能力，在VPT方法中，可能不会对执行系统的注意力需求产生足够的负担，以产生训练收益。因此，这项干预研究的目标是联合收割机CADGS的动态复杂性与以往的VPT数字游戏研究的实验控制，利用星际争霸II：自由之翼中包含的强大的“游戏编辑器”来测试VPT数字游戏干预集中在多种认知能力。