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Rapid individual cognitive phenotyping holds the potential to revolutionize domains as wide-ranging as personalized learning, employment practices, and precision psychiatry. Going beyond limitations imposed by traditional lab-based experiments, new efforts have been underway toward greater ecological validity and participant diversity to capture the full range of individual differences in cognitive abilities and behaviors across the general population. Building on this, we developed Skill Lab, a novel game-based tool that simultaneously assesses a broad suite of cognitive abilities while providing an engaging narrative. Skill Lab consists of six mini-games as well as 14 established cognitive ability tasks. Using a popular citizen science platform (N = 10,725), we conducted a comprehensive validation in the wild of a game-based cognitive assessment suite. Based on the game and validation task data, we constructed reliable models to simultaneously predict eight cognitive abilities based on the users' in-game behavior. Follow-up validation tests revealed that the models can discriminate nuances contained within each separate cognitive ability as well as capture a shared main factor of generalized cognitive ability. Our game-based measures are five times faster to complete than the equivalent task-based measures and replicate previous findings on the decline of certain cognitive abilities with age in our large cross-sectional population sample (N = 6369). Taken together, our results demonstrate the feasibility of rapid in-the-wild systematic assessment of cognitive abilities as a promising first step toward population-scale benchmarking and individualized mental health diagnostics.
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Jogos de Vídeo , Humanos , Estudos Transversais , Jogos de Vídeo/psicologia , Cognição , Aprendizagem , AptidãoRESUMO
Abstract We conducted an exploratory study using a survey inquiring on seven topics on how people were reacting to the co-viD-19 pandemic of 2020 aiming to trace a map of symptoms and feelings related to mental health and isolation. 1785 people participated in the survey. Additionally, we applied two psychological scales to analyze depression and stress (prevalent in previous studies). We found that people in isolation during the pandemic presented symptoms related to dissociative disorders, negative affect, and anxiety syndrome. Also, depression and stress had a high prevalence compared to the average rates indicated by the World Health Organisation and the Colombian Ministry of Health. The results indicated an association between depression and stress and being previously diagnosed with a mental health problem, and job and financial situation. Our results highlight the need to design prevention and intervention programmes to reduce the negative consequences of isolation.
Resumen Realizamos un estudio exploratorio utilizando un cuestionario sobre siete temas acerca de cómo las personas reaccionaron a la pandemia del COVID-19 de 2020 con el objetivo de trazar un mapa de los síntomas y sentimientos relacionados con la salud mental y el aislamiento. En la encuesta participaron 1785 personas. Además, aplicamos dos escalas psicológicas para analizar la depresión y el estrés (prevalente en estudios anteriores). Encontramos que las personas aisladas durante la pandemia presentaban síntomas relacionados con trastornos disociativos, afectos negativos y síndrome de ansiedad. Además, la depresión y el estrés tuvieron una alta prevalencia en comparación con las tasas promedio indicadas por la Organización Mundial de la Salud y el Ministerio de Salud de Colombia. Los resultados indicaron una asociación entre la depresión, el estrés y ser diagnosticado previamente con un problema de salud mental y la situación laboral y financiera. Nuestros resultados ponen de relieve la necesidad de disenar programas de prevención e intervención para reducir las consecuencias negativas del aislamiento.