Increasing speed of processing with action video games

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 321-326

  Dye, Matthew W G ^a   Green, C Shawn ^a   Bavelier, Daphne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Impulsivity; Learning transfer; Processing speed; Video games; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849093750     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01660.x     Document Type: Article

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