SL Nijhof, CH Vinkers, SM van Geelen, SN Duijff… - Neuroscience & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Play is of vital importance for the healthy development of children. From a developmental perspective, play offers ample physical, emotional, cognitive, and social benefits. It allows …
The benefits gained by young animals engaging in play fighting have been a subject of conjecture for over a hundred years. Progress in understanding the behavioral development …
Play is commonly used to assess affective states in both humans and non-human animals. Play appears to be most common when animals are well-fed and not under any direct …
Self-regulation skills are foundational to successful participation in society, and predict a suite of positive outcomes throughout life. It has long been asserted that free (ie …
In this article, we argue that a predictive processing framework (PP) may provide elements for a proximate model of play in children and adults. We propose that play is a behavior in …
This work presents the results of four cooperative-creative game programs (Game Programs). In all four studies, experimental designs with repeated pretest-posttest measures …
JC Niebaum, Y Munakata - Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Performance on lab assessments of executive functions predicts academic achievement and other positive life outcomes. A primary goal of research on executive functions has been to …
According to established background knowledge, playing is essential in human development and a power remediation tool in clinical populations. In clinical interventions …
WT Tsai, IJ Lee, CH Chen - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2021 - Springer
The present study aimed to improve the ability of children with autism to recognize emotions correctly. We used our third-person perspective role-playing game (TPP-RPG) method to …