Exploring the effectiveness of commercial and custom-built games for cognitive training

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Highlights：

• Participants were trained with a COTS brain training game or a custom n-back task.

• Changes in general intelligence were compared to two control groups after 3 weeks.

• No significant differences were found between groups.

• Neither cognitive training system produced significant improvements.

• Future work should consider longer evaluation periods for unsupervised training.

摘要

•Participants were trained with a COTS brain training game or a custom n-back task.•Changes in general intelligence were compared to two control groups after 3 weeks.•No significant differences were found between groups.•Neither cognitive training system produced significant improvements.•Future work should consider longer evaluation periods for unsupervised training.

论文关键词：Cognitive training,Commercial software,N-back task,Fluid intelligence,Game reuse,User study

论文评审过程：Available online 12 June 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.05.014