Do Action Video Games Improve Perception and Cognition?

Frequent action video game players often outperform non-gamers on measures of perception and cognition, and some studies find that video game practice enhances those abilities. The possibility that video game training transfers broadly to other aspects of cognition is exciting because training on on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Walter Richard Boot, Daniel P Blakely, Daniel J Simons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00226/full