Introduction:

The lack of care to the development of logical reasoning by means of didactic games limits the cognitive capacity of university students.

Objective:

To evaluate the logical function from the work memory for mental health and cognitive well-being.

Methods:

The study was carried out at AMTAWI Center of Advanced Investigations and Higher Training in Education, Health and Environment, Ica, Peru between July and December, 2022. From a population of 22 high performance university students of research seedbed, 13 were selected by means of a non-probabilistic sampling by convenience. Two didactic games were applied: colors cubes guessing riddle (concentration and visual retention), marking and recognition of three marine shells (information processing and visual memory). Work memory capacity was only registered for the second game. The results were analyzed with the test of U from Mann-Whitney being considered significant the results at 99 % of confidence.

Results:

An average of 2 errors was registered for the first reply, but in the second one was reduced to 1 error. The value U was 11.0 and the value p was 0.25, where there were no significant differences among medians. However, variability was observed in the performance from the visual retention.

Conclusions:

Didactic games stimulated the cognitive and emotional development of students, strengthening the logical function and work memory. Its integration in the teaching process improves the retention of information and foments essential abilities.

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