Jogos de tabuleiro e de estratégia e seus efeitos em funções executivas as bases neurobiológicas do uso de jogos de tabuleiro e de estratégia

Abstract

The board and strategy games are very common among teachers as a plan to enhance the learning process in healthy children and those youngsters who face up troubles during school performance. However, the teaching practice count on results and conclusions still unreliable, due to lack of standardization in teaching procedures and subjectivity during evaluation processes. Therefore, the results outlined with the use of the game and the conclusions about its efficiency still require scientific evidences about the effects in cognition. Studies in neuroscience offer information that can help educators to understand how the brain responds during some cognitive tasks, mainly the ones involved in situations proposed by board and strategy games. This study intends to show, in easy words for teachers, six scientific articles that research the neurobiological bases related to the practice of playing board and strategy games. In addition, those articles show how playing these games for a longtime can impact the neural circuits and if an intervention program with these games can affect the attention and the behavior in healthy children and those ones with (ADHD) diagnosis. One of these works suggests an evaluation protocol about the effects of an intervention program with the game GO in executive functions.