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Researchers from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Murcia have published in the journal 'Frontiers in Psychology' the results of a research project with which they have shown that the training of school children through the use of a video game developed by them allows the increase their cognitive and learning abilities.
The study, led by Professor Luis Fuentes, has achieved that children who have done this training have increased their IQ and their reasoning ability, have fewer distractions, improve their reading skills and their mathematical fluency, among other aspects.
"This is a very simple videogame, developed by us, with which the children are advancing, it is a training in which they are encountering increasingly complex challenges", explains Professor Fuentes.
The video game has been put to the test with the students of a school in the Region and its results have been compared with students of the same educational level who have not followed this training.
One of the indicators detected by the researchers is that the students who did the training improved their academic results.
The research focused on students of Primary Education, where in the last courses it is usual that the grades of Mathematics go down from one course to the next, according to the teachers.
The children who trained with the video game did not have that habitual descent of their qualifications, according to the results.
The study was developed over thirteen sessions of forty minutes, twice a week, as part of the contents of a subject dedicated to new technologies.
"One of the things we discovered after the research is that six months after the end of the trial the brain connectivity of the students had increased, the more brain connections are generated in the brain areas involved, the better the academic performance of those who depends, "says the principal investigator, for whom this data is one of the great achievements of the study, since they indicate" that the brain benefits last once the training is over ".
The increase that occurred in terms of IQ was between 4-5 points, which for a training of thirteen sessions is a very significant increase.
The children also improved their fluency in mathematical operations and in speed and reading accuracy.
Specifically, the study has detected an improvement of 13.41 points in mathematical fluency and 19 points in reading ability.
In their reasoning ability the students improved 4 points and their level of distraction dropped by 10%.
Regarding the grades, for example, in Mathematics an increase of almost three points was noticed, which means that the students went from having an average of 'good' to a 'notable'.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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