Are videogame training gains specific or general?

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Oei, Adam C ^a   Patterson, Michael D ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cognition; Learning; Perception; Transfer (psychology); Video games

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BLINDNESS; BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; PERIPHERAL VISION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VIDEOGAME TRAINING; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 84898712477     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00054     Document Type: Article

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