Effects of exergames and cognitive-motor dual-task training on cognitive, physical and dual-task functions in cognitively healthy older adults: An overview

Can Exergames Be Improved to Better Enhance Behavioral Adaptability in Older Adults? An Ecological Dynamics Perspective

“…(Pesce, 2012;Ling, 2016, 2019)]. In addition, physical-cognitive training (Fissler et al, 2013;Bamidis et al, 2015) and motor-cognitive training (Gallou-Guyot et al, 2020;Gavelin et al, 2020) were found to be more effective than separate training to improve cognitive functions [but see (Zhu et al, 2016)], for a different conclusion]. In view of these findings, exergames are expected to be more effective than conventional training (i.e., interventions supervised by a coach and not assisted by technologies) to improve behavior and cognition in older adults (Stanmore et al, 2017;Martin-Niedecken and Mekler, 2018).…”

“…Several reasons may explain these inconsistencies. The first reason lies on the low methodological quality and the great heterogeneity of the available studies, which is reported by most reviews and meta-analyses reported (Stojan and Voelcker-Rehage, 2019;Gallou-Guyot et al, 2020;Gavelin et al, 2020). A second reason is that most studies were carried out with off-the-shelf products, which (i) lacked proper theoretical founding concepts, (ii) disregarded basic learning and training principles provided by Movement and Sport Sciences (Caserman et al, 2020) and, (iii) were neither suited for research purposes nor adapted to the specific psychological, physical, and cognitive characteristics of older adults [e.g.…”

“…With respect to cognitive content of commercial exergames, several authors considered that they allow delivering motor-cognitive dualtask training (MCDT) [e.g. (Wollesen and Voelcker-Rehage, 2014;Monteiro-Junior et al, 2016;Anders et al, 2018;Gallou-Guyot et al, 2020;Gavelin et al, 2020;Wollesen et al, 2020)] since additional challenges, in the form of extra tasks, such as counting, matching objects, or avoiding obstacles, are often used to add cognitive training to the physical exercise (Anders et al, 2018). These elements create dual task situations [i.e., Thinking while moving situations, (Herold et al, 2018)], in which the player needs to focus on two or more things simultaneously.…”

“…Our conclusion is that, until now, exergames did not keep their promises, in particular in comparison with conventional cognitive-motor training. We contend that, beyond the heterogeneity and methodological weakness of exergames studies, a more fundamental reason is that most commercial products are implicitly based on the theoretical commitments of the classic cognitive science, which considers dual-task training as the gold standard for targeting brain plasticity and cognitive functioning (Wollesen and Voelcker-Rehage, 2014;Gallou-Guyot et al, 2020;Wollesen et al, 2020). This has two important consequences.…”

Positive Impact of Exergaming on Recovery from Stress and Metabolic Equivalent of Tasks for Athletes and Gamers (on the Example of Outdoor Mobile Games)

“…Загалом з 701 публікації за запитом exergames, в базі даних Science Direct, 12300 публікацій в Google Academia, понад 100 видань в базі Researcher Gate та 144 статей в базі WоS, більша частина дослідних робіт вийшла у світ протягом 2015-2020 рр. і належить до трьох наукових напрямів: реабілітологія [6][7][8][9][10][11], геронтологія і геріатрія [12][13][14][15][16] та педагогіка [1,[17][18][19][20][21][22]. Найбільш ранні з них присвячено впливу ексергеймінгу на боротьбу з дитячим ожирінням [17], а також першим результатам використання танцювальних відеоігор в педагогіці [18].…”