Video games as tools to achieve insight into cognitive processes

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Boot, Walter R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Cognitive processes; Entertainment; Human cognition; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926484214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00003     Document Type: Editorial

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