DOOM'd to switch: Superior cognitive fl exibility in players of first person shooter games

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue APR, 2010, Pages

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   van Leeuwen, Pieter J A ^a   van den Wildenberg, Wery P M ^b   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive fl exibility; Task switching; Videogame

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866844794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00008     Document Type: Article

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