Toward a Science of Learning Games

Mind, Brain, and Education

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-41

  Howard Jones, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551561330     PISSN: 17512271     EISSN: 1751228X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-228X.2011.01108.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Adcock, R. A. (2006). Reward-motivated learning: Mesolimbic activation precedes memory formation. Neuron, 50, 507-517.
2. Atkinson, J. W. (1957). Motivational determinants of risk taking behaviour. Psychological Review, 64, 359-372.
3. Bergin, D. A. (1999). Influences on classroom interest. Educational Psychologist, 34(2), 87-98.
4. Berridge, K. C., & Robinson, T. E. (1998). What is the role of dopamine in reward: Hedonic impact, reward learning, or incentive salience? Brain Research Reviews, 28(3), 309-369.
5. Bogacz, R., McClure, S. M., Li, J., Cohen, J. D., & Montague, P. R. (2007). Short-term memory traces for action bias in human reinforcement learning. Brain Research, 1153, 111-121.
6. Caillois, R. (1961). Man, play, and games. New York: Free Press.
7. Callan, D. E., & Schweighofer, N. (2008). Positive and negative modulation of word learning by reward anticipation [Article]. Human Brain Mapping, 29, 237-249.
8. Clifford, M. M., & Chou, F. C. (1991). Effects of payoff and task context on academic risk taking. Journal of Educational Psychology, 83, 499-507.
9. Cohen, J. D., McClure, S. M., & Yu, A. J. (2007). Should I stay or should I go? How the human brain manages the trade-off between exploitation and exploration [Proceedings paper]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 362(1481), 933-942.
10. Daw, N., O'Doherty, J. P., Dayan, P., Seymour, B., & Dolan, R. J. (2006). Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans. Nature, 441, 876-879.
11. Deci, E. L., Koestner, R., & Ryan, R. M. (1999). A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation [Review]. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 627-668.
12. Eysenck, M. W., & Eysenck, M. C. (1982). Effects of incentive on cued-recall [Article]. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A-Human Experimental Psychology, 34(November), 489-498.
13. Farooqi, I. S., Bullmore, E., Keogh, J., Gillard, J., O'Rahilly, S., & Fletcher, P. C. (2007). Leptin regulates striatal regions and human eating behavior [Article]. Science, 317(5843), 1355.
14. Fiorillo, C. D., Tobler, P. N., & Schultz, W. (2003). Discrete coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons. Science, 299, 1898-1902.
15. Fisher, K. R., Marshall, P. J., & Nanayakkara, A. R. (2009). Motivational orientation, error monitoring, and academic performance in middle childhood: A behavioral and electrophysiological investigation. Mind, Brain, and Education, 3, 56-63.
16. Frazer, J. G. (1993). The golden bough: A study in magic and religion. Ware, Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Editions.
17. Garris, R., Ahlers, R., & Driskell, J. E. (2002). Games, motivation, and learning: A research and practice model. Simulation Gaming, 33, 441-467.
18. Gee, J. P. (2003). What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
19. Heinrich, B. A. (1968). Motivation and long-term memory [Article]. Psychonomic Science, 12(4), 149.
20. Hong, J. C., Hwang, M. Y., Lu, C. H., Cheng, C. L., Lee, Y. C., & Lin, C. L. (2009). Playfulness-based design in educational games: A perspective on an evolutionary contest game. Interactive Learning Environments, 17(1), 15-35.
21. Howard-Jones, P. A. (2008). Philosophical challenges for researchers at the interface between neuroscience and education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 42, 361-380.
22. Howard-Jones, P. A. (2010). The teacher's handbook of twig: Minds, brains and teaching with immersive gaming Retrieved from .
23. Howard-Jones, P. A., Bogacz, R., Yoo, J. H., Leonards, U., & Demetriou, S. (2010). The neural mechanisms of learning from competitors. Neuroimage, 53, 790-799.
24. Howard-Jones, P. A., & Demetriou, S. (2009). Uncertainty and engagement with learning games. Instructional Science, 37, 519-536.
25. Howard-Jones, P. A., Tanimoto, E., Jones, C., Demetriou, S., Morgan, O., Perkins, P., et al. (under revision). Learning to "twig"-Co-constructing pedagogical concepts across neuroscience and education for teaching with immersive gaming. Pedagogies .
26. Immordino-Yang, M. H., & Damasio, A. R. (2007). We feel, therefore we learn: The relevance of affective and social neuroscience to education. Mind, Brain, and Education, 1, 3-10.
27. Johnson, S. (2005). Everything bad is good for you. London: Penguin/Allen Lane.
28. Juul, J. (2003). The game, the player, the world: looking for the heart of gameness. Paper presented at the Level Up: Digital Games Research Conference 2003, Utrecht.
29. Kirriemuir, J., & McFarlane, A. (2004). Literature review in games and learning. Bristol: Futurelab.
30. Knutson, B., Adams, C. M., Fong, G. W., & Hommer, D. (2001). Anticipation of monetary reward selectively recruits nucleus accumbens. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(RC159), 1-5.
31. Koepp, M. J., Gunn, R. N., Lawrence, A. D., Cunningham, V. J., Dagher, A., Jones, T., et al. (1988). Evidence for striatal dopamine release during a video game. Nature, 393, 266-268.
32. Lisman, J. E., & Grace, A. A. (2005). The hippocampal-VTA loop: Controlling the entry of information into long-term memory [Review]. Neuron, 46, 703-713.
33. Loftus, G. R. (1972). Eye fixations and recognition memory for pictures [Article]. Cognitive Psychology, 3, 525-551.
34. Loftus, G. R., & Loftus, E. F. (1983). Mind at play: The psychology of video games. New York: Basic Books.
35. Malone, T. W. (1981). Toward a theory of intrinsically motivating instruction. Cognitive Science, 4, 333-339.
36. McClure, S. M., Berns, G. S., & Montague, P. R. (2003). Temporal prediction errors in a passive learning task activate human striatum [Article]. Neuron, 38, 339-346.
37. Meltzoff, A. N., Kuhl, P. K., Movellan, J., & Sejnowski, T. J. (2009). Foundations for a new science of learning [Review]. Science, 325(5938), 284-288.
38. Muzzio, I. A., Kentros, C., & Kandel, E. (2009). What is remembered? Role of attention on the encoding and retrieval of hippocampal representations [Review]. Journal of Physiology-London, 587, 2837-2854.
39. Nieuwenhuis, S., Heslenfeld, D. J., von Geusau, N. J. A., Mars, R. B., Holroyd, C. B., & Yeung, N. (2005). Activity in human reward-sensitive brain areas is strongly context dependent. Neuroimage, 25, 1302-1309.
40. Nilsson, L. G. (1987). Motivated memory-Dissociation between performance data and subjective reports [Article]. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung, 49, 183-188.
41. O'Doherty, J., Dayan, P., Schultz, J., Deichmann, R., Friston, K., & Dolan, R. J. (2004). Dissociable roles of ventral and dorsal striatum in instrumental conditioning [Article]. Science, 304(5669), 452-454.
42. Office for Standards in Education. (2001). Improving attendance and behaviour in secondary schools. London: Author.
43. Perkins, D. (2009). On grandmother neurons and grandfather clocks. Mind, Brain, and Education, 3, 170-175.
44. Schultz, W., Dayan, P., & Montague, P. R. (1997). A neural substrate of prediction and reward [Article]. Science, 275(5306), 1593-1599.
45. Shizgal, P., & Arvanitogiannis, A. (2003). Gambling on dopamine. Science, 299, 1856-1858.
46. Van Geert, P., & Steenbeek, H. (2008). Brains and the dynamics of "wants" and "cans" in learning. Mind, Brain, and Education, 2, 62-66.
47. Wiener, B. (1966). Motivation and memory. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 80, 1-22.
48. Wise, R. A. (2004). Dopamine, learning and motivation [Review]. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5, 483-494.
49. Zimmerman, E., & Fortugno, N. (2005, April 5). Soapbox: Learning to play to learn-Lessons in educational game design. Gamasutra Retrieved January 21, 2011, from