Action video game play facilitates the development of better perceptual templates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 16961-16966

  Bejjanki, Vikranth R ^a,b   Zhang, Ruyuan ^a   Li, Renjie ^a   Pouget, Alexandre ^a,c   Green, C Shawn ^d   Lu, Zhong Lin ^e   Bavelier, Daphne ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action video games; External noise method; Learning; Perceptual templates; Probabilistic inference

Indexed keywords

ACTION VIDEO GAME PLAY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL TEMPLATE; RECREATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEO GAME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84912550372     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1417056111     Document Type: Article

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