Real-Time Strategy Game Training: Emergence of a Cognitive Flexibility Trait

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Glass, Brian D ^a   Maddox, W Todd ^b   Love, Bradley C ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881366544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070350     Document Type: Article

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