Videogame interventions and spatial ability interactions

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Redick, Thomas S ^a   Webster, Sean B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive intervention; Intelligence; Training; Transfer; Video games

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EXPOSURE; FLUID INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INTELLIGENCE; MATRIX REASONING; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; METHODOLOGY; NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE; RECREATION; REVIEW; SPATIAL ABILITY; SPATIAL IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84897044418     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00183     Document Type: Review

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