A Serious Game in Cognitive Training of Brain-Damaged Patients to Enhance Creativity

Creativity plays an important role in everyday life. In particular, flexibility in thinking, which is one of its main components related to the ability to adopt different perspectives, is essential to face daily life challenges. Flexibility in thinking may be hindered by ageing or by neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and stroke. However, several studies demonstrated that creativity may be maintained and increased to improve the independence and quality of life of these patients. The aim of this work is the design and development of a training protocol to enhance flexibility in thinking in post stroke patients. The training program is characterized by the presence of a Serious Game (SG) with the aim of fostering the transfer of flexibility in thinking to real life