Action Video Games Improve Direction Discrimination of Parafoveal Translational Global Motion but Not Reaction Times

Perception

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1193-1202

  Pavan, Andrea ^a   Boyce, Matthew ^a   Ghin, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

action video games; global translational motion; parafoveal stimuli; reaction times

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETINA FOVEA; VIDEO GAME;

ATTENTION; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84988353450     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: 14684233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0301006616663215     Document Type: Article

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