scholarly journals Action-Video-Game Experience Alters the Spatial Resolution of Vision

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.S. Green ◽  
D. Bavelier
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Target Identification ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Action Video Game ◽  
Causative Relationship ◽  
Action Video Games ◽  
Game Players

Playing action video games enhances several different aspects of visual processing; however, the mechanisms underlying this improvement remain unclear. Here we show that playing action video games can alter fundamental characteristics of the visual system, such as the spatial resolution of visual processing across the visual field. To determine the spatial resolution of visual processing, we measured the smallest distance a distractor could be from a target without compromising target identification. This approach exploits the fact that visual processing is hindered as distractors are brought close to the target, a phenomenon known as crowding. Compared with nonplayers, action-video-game players could tolerate smaller target-distractor distances. Thus, the spatial resolution of visual processing is enhanced in this population. Critically, similar effects were observed in non-video-game players who were trained on an action video game; this result verifies a causative relationship between video-game play and augmented spatial resolution.

scholarly journals The Influence of Action Video Games on Attentional Functions Across Visual and Auditory Modalities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Wu ◽  
Ying Jiang ◽  
Yunpeng Jiang ◽  
Guodong Chen ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Visual Task ◽  
Attention Network ◽  
Specific Target ◽  
Action Video Game ◽  
Action Video Games ◽  
Game Players ◽  
Auditory Tasks

Attention can help an individual efficiently find a specific target among multiple distractors and is proposed to consist of three functions: alerting, orienting, and executive control. Action video games (AVGs) have been shown to enhance attention. However, whether AVG can affect the attentional functions across different modalities remains to be determined. In the present study, a group of action video game players (AVGPs) and a group of non-action video game players (NAVGPs) selected by a video game usage questionnaire successively participated in two tasks, including an attention network task-visual version (ANT-V) and an attention network task-auditory version (ANT-A). The results indicated that AVGPs showed an advantage in orienting under the effects of conflicting stimuli (executive control) in both tasks, and NAVGPs may have a reduced ability to disengage when conflict occurs in visual task, suggesting that the AVGs can improve guidance toward targets and inhibition of distractors with the function of executive control. AVGPs also showed more correlations among attentional functions. Importantly, the alerting functions of AVGPs in visual and auditory tasks were significantly related, indicating that the experience of AVGs could help us to generate a supramodal alerting effect across visual and auditory modalities.

scholarly journals Effects Of Video Games On Executive Control, Aggression and Gaming Motivation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akshay Anil Dixit ◽  
Divya Sinha ◽  
Hemalatha Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Visual Perception ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Visual Scanning ◽  
Action Video Game ◽  
Action Video Games ◽  
Game Players ◽  
Gaming Motivation

With the advancements of computer technology and accessible internet, playing video games has become immensely popular across all age groups. Increasing research talks about the cognitive benefits of Video Games. At the same time, video games are stereotyped as an activity for the lazy and unproductive. Within this backdrop, our study aims to understand the effect of video games on Executive control (Visual Scanning and Visual Perception), Aggression, and Gaming Motivation. Twenty non-gamers were selected and divided into two groups: Action Video Game Players (AVGP) and Non-Action Video Game Players NAVGP). We used two computerized tests: Gabor Orientation Identification Test and Visual Scanning Test (to assess visual perception and visual scanning, respectively) and two questionnaires (to assess aggression and gaming motivation). We found an improvement in visual perception as well as visual scanning following video game training in AVGPs. Interestingly, aggression did not increase with an increase in video game exposure. We also found insignificant changes in gaming motivation after the training, except for self-gratification motives. Cognitive improvements do not relate to action video games alone, but non-action video games also show promising results to enhance cognition. With better timed and controlled training with video games, aggression as a prospective consequence of video game exposure can also be controlled. We propose targeted video game training as an approach to enhance cognition in non-gamers.

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 Light Video Game Play is Associated with Enhanced Visual Processing of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Targets

Perception ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina J. Howard ◽  
Robert Wilding ◽  
Duncan Guest
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Blink ◽  
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Correct Identification ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Game Players ◽  
Attentional Tasks

There is mixed evidence that video game players (VGPs) may demonstrate better performance in perceptual and attentional tasks than non-VGPs (NVGPs). The rapid serial visual presentation task is one such case, where observers respond to two successive targets embedded within a stream of serially presented items. We tested light VGPs (LVGPs) and NVGPs on this task. LVGPs were better at correct identification of second targets whether they were also attempting to respond to the first target. This performance benefit seen for LVGPs suggests enhanced visual processing for briefly presented stimuli even with only very moderate game play. Observers were less accurate at discriminating the orientation of a second target within the stream if it occurred shortly after presentation of the first target, that is to say, they were subject to the attentional blink (AB). We find no evidence for any reduction in AB in LVGPs compared with NVGPs.

Is action video gaming related to sustained attention of adolescents?

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 1033-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Carmen Trisolini ◽  
Marco Alessandro Petilli ◽  
Roberta Daini
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Attention Task ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Action Video Game ◽  
Action Video Games ◽  
Game Player ◽  
Video Game Player

Over the past few years, an increasing number of studies have shown that playing action video games can have positive effects on tasks that involve attention and visuo-spatial cognition (e.g., visual search, enumeration tasks, tracking multiple objects). Although playing action video games can improve several cognitive functions, the intensive interaction with the exciting, challenging, intrinsically stimulating and perceptually appealing game environments may adversely affect other functions, including the ability to maintain attention when the level of stimulation is not as intense. This study investigated whether a relationship existed between action video gaming and sustained attention performance in a sample of 45 Italian teenagers. After completing a questionnaire about their video game habits, participants were divided into Action Video Game Player (AVGP) and Non–Action Video Game Player (NAVGP) groups and underwent cognitive tests. The results confirm previous findings of studies of AVGPs as they had significantly enhanced performance for instantly enumerating a set of items. Nevertheless, we found that the drop in performance over time, typical of a sustained attention task, was significantly greater in the AVGP compared with the NAVGP group. This result is consistent with our hypothesis and demonstrates a negative effect of playing action video games.

Competitive action video game players display rightward error bias during on-line video game play

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Roebuck ◽  
Aurora J. B. Dubnyk ◽  
David Cochran ◽  
Regan L. Mandryk ◽  
John G. Howland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Action Video Game ◽  
Competitive Action ◽  
On Line ◽  
Game Players ◽  
Error Bias

Career Counseling Interventions for Video Game Players

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shékina Rochat ◽  
Jérôme Armengol
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Personality Types ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Vocational Personality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Counseling Interventions ◽  
Game Players

Video games are becoming ubiquitous in Western societies. However, this virtual leisure has received little attention from researchers in career counseling, leaving career counselors relatively unprepared to work with video game players. In this article, we propose three types of interventions to capitalize on the benefits of playing video games to foster the career counseling process. The first intervention aims to identify and transfer the skills that video game players develop through their leisure activity. The second intervention highlights how video game players’ narrative may reveal vocational personality types. The third intervention proposes to turn career counseling tasks into a game to increase motivation to achieve it. The strengths and limitations of these interventions are underlined, as well as the potential of career counseling sessions to help remedy problematic video game play.

scholarly journals Temporal resolution of visual processing in action video game players

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1008-1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Li ◽  
U. Polat ◽  
W. Makous ◽  
D. Bavelier
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Action Video Game ◽  
Game Players

scholarly journals The Contrasting Effects of an Action Video Game on Visuo-Spatial Processing and Proactive Cognitive Control

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5160
Author(s):  
Robert West ◽  
Edward L. Swing ◽  
Craig A. Anderson ◽  
Sara Prot
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Spatial Processing ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Action Video Game ◽  
Action Video Games ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Causal Nature

First person shooter or action video games represent one of the most popular genres within the gaming industry. Studies reveal that action gaming experience leads to enhancements of visuo-spatial processing. In contrast, some correlational evidence reveals that experience with action video games may be associated with reduced proactive cognitive control. The two primary goals of the current study were to test the causal nature of the effect of action gaming on proactive cognitive control and to examine whether an increase in visuo-spatial processing and a decrease in proactive cognitive control arise from the same amount of experience playing an action video game. Participants completed tasks measuring visuo-spatial processing and cognitive control before and after 10 practice sessions involving one of three video games or were assigned to a no gaming experience control group. The data revealed the typical increase in visuo-spatial processing and a decrease in proactive, but not reactive, cognitive control following action game training. The sizes of these two training effects were similar in magnitude, but interpretation of the effects was constrained by baseline differences between the four groups of subjects. The possibility of a causal effect of action gaming on proactive cognitive control is interesting within the context of correlational evidence linking greater action gaming experience to reduced cognitive control, poor decision making, and increased impulsivity.

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