Cognitive pitfall! Videogame players are not immune to dual-task costs

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 803-809

  Donohue, Sarah E ^a   James, Brittany ^b   Eslick, Andrea N ^c   Mitroff, Stephen R ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Colby College   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divided attention; Dual task performance; Inattention; Multisensory processing; Video games

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAR DRIVING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECREATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862676282     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0323-y     Document Type: Article

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