Desarrollo de la atención y la memoria de un joven video-jugador de la ciudad de Cali, Valle del cauca

Abstract

This study arises from the interest of investigating the cognitive development of young gamers, given that the cognitive part is related to the context of each subject, which leads to the generation of "slang" languages, habits and behaviors of which occasionally their origin is not easily detected, causing possible affectations in the different dimensions of the subject such as at the family, social, academic and even personal levels, thus compromising their quality of life, in this way it is proposed to address, describe and evaluate cognitive development with respect to the attention and memory of a young sixteen-year-old video gamer, who is in the tenth grade in the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca, to finally determine the correlation between video games and cognitive development (attention and memory) . This is a clinical field study with a cognitive approach, a quantitative method, a non-experimental/cross-sectional design, a descriptive-exploratory scope, a single case with the participation of a young video gamer, for its evaluation the neuropsychological test was used. Neuropsi Edition 2. Finally, regarding the results, a performance from normal to high normal was found with a score of 416 ≥ 115, thus showing a good performance in terms of the cognitive characteristics of attention and memory, which generated a positive influence by part of the videogames affirming no affectations in their cognitive development.