Andrew MacNamara

Narrative games for learning: Testing the discovery and narrative hypotheses.

Deanne Adams, Richard E. Mayer, Andrew MacNamara et al. · Journal of Educational Psychology · 2011 · 194 citations

Educational Psychology, Education, Cognition +18

Emotional design for digital games for learning: The effect of expression, color, shape, and dimensionality on the affective quality of game characters

Jan L. Plass, Bruce D. Homer, Andrew MacNamara et al. · Learning and Instruction · 2019 · 127 citations

Digital Games, Engineering, Affective Design +13

Learning executive function skills by playing focused video games

Jocelyn Parong, Richard E. Mayer, Logan Fiorella et al. · Contemporary Educational Psychology · 2017 · 89 citations

Cognitive Science, Educational Game, Cognitive Development +8

The effect of adaptive difficulty adjustment on the effectiveness of a game to develop executive function skills for learners of different ages

Jan L. Plass, Bruce D. Homer, Shashank Pawar et al. · Cognitive Development · 2018 · 67 citations

Cognitive Science, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Factor +13

Activating adolescents’ “hot” executive functions in a digital game to train cognitive skills: The effects of age and prior abilities

Bruce D. Homer, Jan L. Plass, Maya C. Rose et al. · Cognitive Development · 2018 · 43 citations

Cognitive Science, Adolescent Cognition, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience +12