Digital games are a part of children's everyday life. Parental guidance may influence what
children learn from digital games, but children also often play digital games alone. There is a
need to study learning from digital games in the presence and absence of parental
guidance. We compared exploration and learning to play the video game Rock Band 3 over
10 weeks at home in parent-guided (n= 25) and self-directed (n= 25) groups, relative to a
control group (n= 27). We recorded the electroencephalogram (EEG) at rest to add to our …