关键词: 体感游戏, 干预, 执行功能, 儿童青少年

Abstract: In recent years, the growing issues of insufficient physical activity and increased screen time among children and adolescents have had a profound impact on their physical and mental health, as well as the development of executive functions. As an innovative intervention that integrates physical movement with cognitive challenges, exergaming has gradually shown promising potential in enhancing executive function in this population. Based on a comprehensive review of exergaming intervention paradigms, this paper focuses on the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of exergaming in improving executive functions among children and adolescents. Research has shown that exergaming can significantly enhance inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility through multiple mechanisms, including physiological arousal, cognitive engagement, and neural plasticity, with particularly notable effects observed in both short-term and long-term interventions. Existing evidence indicates that intervention outcomes are moderated by multiple factors such as age, baseline executive function, body weight, cognitive load of the game, exercise intensity, interaction mode, and intervention setting. Compared with existing meta-analyses, this paper further constructs a “Triple-Path Synergistic Hypothesis Model,” which integrates physiological, cognitive, and neural mechanisms, and systematically organizes moderating variables ranging from individual characteristics to environmental factors, providing a unified explanatory framework for understanding the heterogeneity of intervention effects. Future studies should further focus on developing personalized and customized exergames, exploring the dose-response relationship of exergaming interventions, expanding the application of virtual reality technologies, enhancing the external validity of exergaming research, and deeply integrating cognitive, physiological, and neural mechanisms to construct a unified theoretical explanatory model. These efforts will promote the scientific and precise application of exergaming in the field of cognitive health promotion among children and adolescents.

Key words: exergaming, intervention, executive function, children and adolescents