My search topic is:

By engaging in video games, will it help improve cognitive abilities?

Searched Forsyth library under Computer Source, which led me to EBSCOhost.

Cheon, J., Chung, S., & Lee, S. (2015). The Roles of attitudinal perceptions and cognitive achievements in a serious game. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 52(1), 3–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735633114568851

Subject Terms for this article are:

• Educational games
• College student attitudes
• Cognitive ability
• Educational psychology

The subject term I started with is educational games, resulting in 256 items; the first 30 were unrelated to my research topic.

The subject term I tried next is cognitive ability, resulting in 319 items; using AND games reduced the result to 34. Several possibilities may work well with my research topic.

Searched Forsyth library under Computer Source, which led me to EBSCOhost.

Ahmad, F., Chen, Y., Hu, L., Wang, S., Wang, J., Chen, Z., Jiang, X., & Shen, J. (2017). BrainStorm : a psychosocial game suite design for non-invasive cross-generational cognitive capabilities data collection. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 29(6), 1311–1323. https://doi.org/10.1080/0952813X.2017.1354079

Using this for my citation tracing:

I used this website to learn more about citation tracing for this article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1080/0952813X.2017.1354079?scroll=top

Backward citation tracing had 39.

Forward citation tracing only had 2.

I found some incredible videos, too, just not sure if we will be able to include them as part of our final research paper.