Improved control of exogenous attention in action video game players

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Cain, Matthew S ^a,b   Prinzmetal, William ^a   Shimamura, Arthur P ^a   Landau, Ayelet N ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Cueing; Exogenous attention; Individual differences; Video game players

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897650745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00069     Document Type: Article

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