Erratum to: Technology consumption and cognitive control: Contrasting action video game experience with media multitasking (Atten Percept Psychophys, DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-0988-0);Technology consumption and cognitive control: Contrasting action video game experience with media multitasking

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 218-241

  Cardoso Leite, Pedro ^a   Kludt, Rachel ^b   Vignola, Gianluca ^a   Ma, Wei Ji ^c   Green, C Shawn ^d   Bavelier, Daphne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Action video games; AX CPT; Filter task; Media multitasking; N back; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEO GAME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953636579     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-1014-2     Document Type: Erratum

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