Effects of friend vs. foe discrimination training in action video games

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1416-1420

  Brown, Christopher ^a   May, Robert ^a   Nyman, Jeremiah ^a   Palmer, Evan ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION VIDEO GAMES; ATTENTIONAL FILTERING; FLANKER INTERFERENCE; NON-ACTION; VIDEO GAME; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS; VISUAL SKILLS;

ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84873452678     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1071181312561401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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