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Cognitive Gamer

by Stephen Blessing

I examine how cognitive psychology can help explain and inform how we play games. Each episode looks at how a particular cognitive phenomenon affects game playing. All types of games are considered, from board games to video games to games of chance. Check out cognitivegamer.com for more information.

Episodes

Episode 04: Shall We Play a Game? Rise of the Machines

18m · Published 20 Jul 20:02

For about as long as there have been computers, there have been computer programs that play games. This episode considers some of the history of game playing computers, and how that has shed light on the nature of human intelligence. … Continue reading →

Episode 03: Attention, Please! The Role of Attention in Playing Games

18m · Published 10 Jul 14:20

You need to have focused attention while playing games. If you don’t, you might miss a critical move in a board game, or totally miss that other player about to blast you in Call of Duty. This episode considers how … Continue reading →

Episode 02: Now You See It, Now You Still Do: The Use of Visual Imagery in Memory

18m · Published 29 Jun 03:38

Visual memory has a different character than verbal memory. This episode examines the nature of our visual memory, and how it is used in such games as Tetris, Carcassonne, and any game that has a map that your character must … Continue reading →

Episode 01: You Must Remember This: The Use of Activation in Game Playing

18m · Published 21 Jun 13:33

How verbal items are stored in long term affect how they are retrieved. This in turn affects how we play a fair number of games, as they require retrieval of items from long term memory. In particular, I consider such … Continue reading →

Cognitive Gamer has 34 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 9:59:50. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 28th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on February 23rd, 2024 15:20.