Virtual environmental enrichment through video games improves hippocampal-associated memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 49, 2015, Pages 16116-16125

  Clemenson, Gregory D ^a   Stark, Craig E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Pattern separation; Video games

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; GAME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MNEMONIC SIMILARITY TASK; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ENVIRONMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VIDEO GAME;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949595730     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2580-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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