Episode 37: Hooked on Mnemonics
How can some people remember scores of digits at a time or repeat back all the cards in a shuffled deck? Do they have exceptional memories?...
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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 con...
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20 of 37 episodesEpisode 36: Memory Behaving Baddeley
It’s time to dive in and finally have an in-depth discussion of working memory! Game References Carcassonne, River Valley Glassworks, Tetris...
Episode 35: Cognalysis: Sky Team and Wandering Towers
It’s a bird, it’s a…yeah, it is a plane! Oh, and also a Tower? We are back with a cognalysis of two games, Sky Team, fresh off its Spiel des...
Episode 34: I Never Metacognition I Didn’t Like
As humans, we can think about our own thinking. This is referred to as metacognition, and can provide great insight into game playing and li...
Episode 33: Get Your Head in the Game
This episode considers how best to learn and teach games. Are there particular techniques that enables people to learn games more quickly an...
Episode 32: From the Bottom to the Top and Back Again
When processing information, humans use both the information coming through our senses and previously stored knowledge. This is referred to...
Episode 31: I Think I Know What You Know
Show Notes When playing games, we find it useful to consider what other players know, and how that affects game play. Psychologists study th...
Episode 30: The Invisible Boardgame
I ruminate on playing games online and how that relates to both game and interface design, as well as how humans experience emotion. This ha...
Episode 29: This is Like That: The Importance of Analogies
In talking about a game, we almost always make references to past games in order to describe or teach the new game. What does cognitive psyc...
Episode 28: From Novice to Expert in One Easy Step
What happens, cognitively speaking, as we move from novice to expert in a game? The episode examines changes in memory and strategy as peopl...
Episode 27: Mental Models
If you are an experienced gamer, you have seen that you can pick up a new game much more quickly than someone who doesn’t have as much gamin...
Episode 26: To Switch or Not to Switch (but not that type of Switch)
Multi-tasking happens a lot. We’re in a meeting, we email. We watch TV, we text. And to the chagrin of many, we play a game with our friends...
Episode 25: Now That’s Deep!
We examine the concept of levels of processing in this episode, that if you process an experience more deeply, you will remember it better....
Episode 24: Wingspan Cognalysis
Wingspan is a hot new boardgame that’s rocketing up the boardgamegeek’s rating chart. In this episode we take a look at some explanations of...
Episode 23: Game, Mental Set, Match
Game players often get stuck, either not seeing how to properly use an object in the game or perhaps persisting in an inefficient strategy....
Episode 22: The Amazing Declarative to Procedural Transition
Big changes happen in memory and knowledge as a person goes from beginner to expert. What does this entail for playing games? We take a clos...
Episode 21: Anchors Aweigh!
How do we figure out how much something should cost or what the value of a thing should be? One decision-making heuristic process for this i...
Episode 20: Building Minds with Scaffolding
I’m joined again by the resident developmental psychologist, where we talk about scaffolding, a learning technique where help and assistance...
Episode 19: Decrypto and Codenames CG Cognalysis
I take a dive into Decrypto, comparing how clues are given in it versus in Codenames. Both the similarities and differences shed light into...
Episode 18: Attributions are Fundamental
We are constantly explaining to ourselves why events happen. When those explanations involve linking the outcome of an event with our respon...