A Game-Based Cognitive Assessment for Visuospatial Tasks: Evaluation in Healthy Adults

Abstract

This article presents a study on the validation of gamified versions of three established cognitive tasks, namely the Corsi task, the Visual Search task, and the Whack a Mole task. Short versions of these tasks were created using gamification techniques and tested on healthy adults. Results showed that these new gamified versions produce similar patterns of results with those obtained from the traditional versions. Concluding, game-based cognitive assessment for visuospatial tasks is promising, however, this needs to be further evaluated on larger scale studies as well as under different cognitive conditions.