Video game experience predicts virtual, but not real navigation performance

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 552-560

  Richardson, Anthony E ^a   Powers, Morgan E ^a   Bousquet, Lauren G ^a  

^a SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic spatial tasks; Sex differences; Spatial navigation; Video games; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ABILITY; COVARIATES; GAME EXPERIENCE; GAMING EXPERIENCES; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; JOY-STICK INTERFACES; NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; SAT SCORES; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL ABILITIES; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; SPATIAL PERFORMANCE; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL NAVIGATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78449312020     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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