Habitual action video game playing is associated with caudate nucleusdependent navigational strategies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1808, 2015, Pages

  West, Greg L ^a   Drisdelle, Brandi Lee ^a   Konishi, Kyoko ^b   Jackson, Jonathan ^a   Jolicoeur, Pierre ^a   Bohbot, Veronique D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action video games; Hippocampus; Response learning; Spatial memory; Striatum; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; VIDEOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME;

RODENTIA;

ADULT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIDEO GAME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; VIDEO GAMES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929997438     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2952     Document Type: Article

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