Games that elicit transfer to the real world

GOLDIN, ANDREA PAULA

Punta del Este

Otro; IV Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Science; 2014

Conferencia.Executive functions (EF) in children can be trained, but it remainsunknown whether training-related benefits elicit far transfer toreal-life situations. Here, we investigate whether a set of comput-erized games might yield near and far transfer on an experimentaland an active control group of low-SES otherwise typically devel-oping 6-y-olds in a 3-mo pretest?training?posttest design thatwas ecologically deployed (at school). The intervention elicits trans-fer to some (but not all) facets of executive function. These changescascade to real-world measures of school performance. The inter-vention equalizes academic outcomes across children who regu-larly attend school and those who do not because of social andfamiliar circumstances.