The case for causal influences of action videogame play upon vision and attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 667-672

  Kristjánsson, Árni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Attention; Perceptual learning; Videogames; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; VIDEO GAMES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876579188     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0427-z     Document Type: Article

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