Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Still No Evidence That Video-Game Experience Is Related to Cognitive Abilities—A Reply to Green et al. (2017)

Psychological Science

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 683-686

  Redick, Thomas S ^a   Unsworth, Nash ^b   Kane, Michael J ^c   Hambrick, David Z ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; COGNITION; VIDEO GAME;

APTITUDE; COGNITION; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 85019234949     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797617698527     Document Type: Note

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