{"pk":26175,"title":"Using a smartphone game to promote transfer of skills in a real world environment","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article presents an experiment in which participant’sworking memory, tasks-switching and focusing skills aretrained in a game called Wollie on a smartphone. Before andafter the training period they performed three task (a recall,Stroop and task-switching). The goal of this research was tosee how the participants, from the test group, learn withinthe game and how this affects the three tasks. Only in theStroop results a clear difference between the two groups wasfound. However, we found that participants who had the mosttrouble in playing Wollie, improved the most on Stroop andtask-switching, indicating that these participants still lackedthe relevant skills for all these tasks.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"transfer; smartphone; working memory; task-switching; games"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z78r9hs","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Inge","middle_name":"","last_name":"Doesburg","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""},{"first_name":"Niels","middle_name":"","last_name":"Taatgen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Groningen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26175/galley/15811/download/"}]}