scholarly journals Learning, Attentional Control, and Action Video Games

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. R197-R206 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Green ◽  
D. Bavelier
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Action Video Games

Association Between Action Video Game Playing Experience and Visual Search in Real-life Multisensory scenes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hamzeloo ◽  
Daria Kvasova ◽  
Salvador Soto-Faraco
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Search Task ◽  
Visual Search Task ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Action Video Game ◽  
Action Video Games

Prior studies investigating the effects of playing action video games on attentional control have demonstrated improvements on a variety of basic psychophysical tasks. However, as of yet, there is little evidence indicating that the cognitive benefits of playing action video games generalize to naturalistic multisensory scenes - a fundamental characteristic of our natural, everyday life environments. The present study addressed the generalization of attentional control enhancement due to AVGP experience to real-life like scenarios by comparing the performance of action video-game players (AVGPs) with non-players (NVGPs) on a visual search task using naturalistic, dynamic audio-visual scenes. To this end, a questionnaire collecting data on gaming habits and sociodemographic data as well as a visual search task was administered online to a gender-balanced sample of 60 participants of age 18 to 30 years. According to the standard hypothesis, AVGPs outperformed NVGPs in the search task overall, showing faster reaction times without sacrificing accuracy. In addition, in replication of previous findings, semantically congruent cross-modal cues benefited performance overall. However, according to our results, despite the overall advantage in search, and the multisensory congruence benefit, AVGPs did not exploit multisensory cues more efficiently than NVGPs. Exploratory analyses with gender as a variable indicated that the advantage of AVG experience to both genders should be done with caution.

scholarly journals Action Video Games Enhance Attentional Control and Phonological Decoding in Children with Developmental Dyslexia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Bertoni ◽  
Sandro Franceschini ◽  
Giovanna Puccio ◽  
Martina Mancarella ◽  
Simone Gori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Developmental Dyslexia ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Neurocognitive Deficits ◽  
Phonological Decoding ◽  
Action Video Games ◽  
Decoding Speed

Reading acquisition is extremely difficult for about 5% of children because they are affected by a heritable neurobiological disorder called developmental dyslexia (DD). Intervention studies can be used to investigate the causal role of neurocognitive deficits in DD. Recently, it has been proposed that action video games (AVGs)—enhancing attentional control—could improve perception and working memory as well as reading skills. In a partial crossover intervention study, we investigated the effect of AVG and non-AVG training on attentional control using a conjunction visual search task in children with DD. We also measured the non-alphanumeric rapid automatized naming (RAN), phonological decoding and word reading before and after AVG and non-AVG training. After both video game training sessions no effect was found in non-alphanumeric RAN and in word reading performance. However, after only 12 h of AVG training the attentional control was improved (i.e., the set-size slopes were flatter in visual search) and phonological decoding speed was accelerated. Crucially, attentional control and phonological decoding speed were increased only in DD children whose video game score was highly efficient after the AVG training. We demonstrated that only an efficient AVG training induces a plasticity of the fronto-parietal attentional control linked to a selective phonological decoding improvement in children with DD.

scholarly journals Enhancing Attentional Control: Lessons from Action Video Games

Neuron ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Bavelier ◽  
C. Shawn Green
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Action Video Games

Action video games and informal education: Effects on strategies for dividing visual attention

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Greenfield ◽  
Patricia DeWinstanley ◽  
Heidi Kilpatrick ◽  
Daniel Kaye
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Action Video Games ◽  
Education Effects

scholarly journals Enhancing reading performance through action video games: the role of visual attention span

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Antzaka ◽  
M. Lallier ◽  
S. Meyer ◽  
J. Diard ◽  
M. Carreiras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Visual Attention ◽  
Reading Performance ◽  
Attention Span ◽  
Action Video Games
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