Frequent video game players resist perceptual interference

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Berard, Aaron V ^a   Cain, Matthew S ^a,b   Watanabe, Takeo ^a   Sasaki, Yuka ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL INTERFERENCE; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; RECREATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION TASK; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; PSYCHOLOGY; VIDEO GAME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VIDEO GAMES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926363067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120011     Document Type: Article

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