Lindsay Portnoy, Killer Snails, 2018 Intentional Play Summit Speaker - Bugatti and the Brain: The Cognitive Science Underlying Game Design
What travels faster than a Bugatti and carries over 1,000 trillion passengers from a single drivers seat? The three pound mass between your ears is home to billions of neurons whose signals travel over 270 miles per hour to send messages, otherwise known as human thought. Making up only 2% of the human body the brain is the source of what makes us, us. Who we are, what we do, how we move, why we think and react to the world around us. Cognitive science and the neurological underpinnings that make the science of learning concrete provide evidence for the way we perceive and engage with the world around us. In this talk Lindsay Portnoy uses cognitive science as a lens to understand the mental processes foundational for learning from the zone of proximal development to self-determination theory and share how science informs the ways in which we develop immersive games to engage our youngest citizens, whose brainpower makes the Bugatti Veryon's top speed of 254 miles per hour seem like a walk in the park!
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Lindsay Portnoy, Killer Snails, 2018 Intentional Play Summit Speaker - Bugatti and the Brain: The Cognitive Science Underlying Game Design
- 1. Bugatti + The Brain: The striking similarity between play and gray (matter) Lindsay Portnoy, Ph.D. Killer Snails @killersnails1 @lportnoy www.killersnails.com
- 2. The Need for Speed 254 mph Synapses >260 mphspeed 2 passengers 1,000 trillion messagesimpact
- 3. Neuron = Nexus of the Universe? A single neuron connects to 10,000 others
- 4. Learning Science + CARS Have More Than Speed in Common Deci & Ryan, 2000
- 5. Competence: Replay, learn, improve
- 6. Autonomy: Your voice, your choice
- 7. Relatedness: Shared Language, Shared Goals
- 8. The Science of Learning & The Making of Games How do we represent different voices? How do we represent different experiences? How do we create more meaningful play?
- 9. Same Cognitive Architecture + Different Experiences
- 10. Attention, Perception, & Learning Attention = selective response to stimuli (focus) Perception = our constructed reality
- 11. Attention ≠ Perception Our schema, mental models based on prior knowledge, guide attention.
- 12. The difference between perception + attention: Say the color, not the word Orange Green Blue Yellow Red Purple
- 13. Say the color, not the word grön aranciacaeruleum ירוק roxa 黄色 The Stroop Test
- 14. Context Matters & Motivates
- 15. Context Matters: The Science of Learning + Games Zone of Proximal Development (Vygotksy, 1976) Ninja as “More Knowledgeable Other” in Fortnite Battle Royale
- 16. Killer Snails: Intentional Design for Intentional Play AutonomyCompetence Relatedness
- 17. Different Experiences = Different Outcomes “I hated history until the history channel came out.” (Source: Unknown)
- 18. How do we create more meaningful play that reflects experience & voice Killer Snails Mission: Science out of the lab and into the hands of players/learners worldwide
- 19. Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Tabletop Computer/Digital Killer Snails: Games Down to a Science
- 20. Team Killer Snails! Co-Founders: Dr. Mandë Holford, Dr. Lindsay Portnoy, Jessica Ochoa Hendrix, MBA Design & Development Team : Noelle Posadas, Chris Pollati, Carlos DaLomba, Starlyn Urena, Isaac Atif Teacher Ambassadors: Heidi Bernasconi, Amanda Solarsh
- 21. Thank You + Questions? Lindsay Portnoy, Ph.D. lindsay@killersnails.com @lportnoy @killersnails1
Editor's Notes
- Assumptions about what or who we see impact our perception and ultimately our actions
- Fun facts about perception: stroop test in two languages Green color = yellow in mandarin Purple color = yellow in hebrew Orange color = blue in latin Yellow color = purple in portuguese Blue color = green in swedish Red color = orange in italian