Technological Tools for the Intervention and Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Executive Functions

Abstract

Computerized cognitive training is popular for some of its advantages. In this sense, clinical approaches based on cognitive rehabilitation and cognitive stimulation and research-based approaches based on the maintenance and reinforce of cognitive functions through systematic processes are both the basis of the application of technological tools for interventions in executive functions. Different cognitive remediation tools like Cogmed Working Memory Training and CogniFit and other possibilities like home computer-based training, use of smartphone apps, gamification, virtual reality, Exergame, educational robotics, and web-based counselor-assisted problem-solving interventions can generate different types of training transfer effects on working memory, inhibitory control, among others. Moreover, the integration of computerized adaptive testing and dynamic assessment would introduce another type of technological intervention-oriented assessment. The objective of the chapter is to present updated material about technological interventions in executive functions.