Real-time strategy video game experience and visual perceptual learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 10485-10492

  Kim, Yong Hwan ^a   Kang, Dong Wha ^a   Kim, Dongho ^b   Kim, Hye Jin ^a   Sasaki, Yuka ^b   Watanabe, Takeo ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Probabilistic tractography; Texture discrimination task; Video game experience; Visual perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VIDEO GAMES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937707063     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3340-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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