Selling points: What cognitive abilities are tapped by casual video games?

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-86

  Baniqued, Pauline L ^a   Lee, Hyunkyu ^b   Voss, Michelle W ^c   Basak, Chandramallika ^d   Cosman, Joshua D ^e   DeSouza, Shanna ^a   Severson, Joan ^f   Salthouse, Timothy A ^g   Kramer, Arthur F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Brain Plasticity Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Digital Artefacts LLC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Casual games; Cognitive training; Fluid intelligence; Reasoning; Video games; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871030336     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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