Show Video:All popular digital games exercise cognitive skills.Exergamers believe DDR is great for getting fit and weight reduction, probably is, but I observed some expert DDR players who didn’t need exercise. They process the arrows moving up on the screen at 7 moves per second!!! With no mistakes. How were they doing this? I eyetracked them. They were doing pattern search, pattern matching, memory chuncking, and as their cognitive skills improved, so did their game play. And the more they played, the more their cognitve skills improved. They also did the move in peripheral vision (as do people playing solitare.
Phoebe is our protagonist. Austistic kids dont like animals that talk. Girls relate to Phoebe cause she is cute and clever, and boys like her cause she is cute ….and rides a Harley davidson
Angry Birds is no more than worms with cute birds. It is also just missile command. However, it is addictive because utilizes cognitive challenge…..
This and other features were promoted by doctors and parents.
Nearly all games developed for heathcare are in English. This needs a rethink.