A Reduction in Video Gaming Time Produced a Decrease in Brain Activity

Gong, Diankun; Yao, Yutong; Gan, Xianyang; Peng, Yue; Ma, Weiyi; Yao, Dezhong

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2019.00134

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“…This study used the recruitment procedure established in previous research (Qiu et al, 2018 ; Gong et al, 2019b ; Gan et al, 2020 ). All the participants in the current study were college students of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) who responded to the recruitment flyers posted on campus or on the Internet forums hosted by the UESTC.…”

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“…Based on the results, eight additional individuals were excluded prior to the experiment because they had moderate/severe depression or anxiety (i.e., SDS ≥ 63 or SAS ≥ 60; n = 5) and Internet gaming disorders ( n = 3). The participants also reported their: (1) gaming experience in the recent 2 years and expertise gaming ranking of League of Legends (LOL)—the ARSG game used in this study; (2) LOL ID, which was used to validate the participants’ self-reported gaming experience and expertise; and (3) gaming experience of other gaming genres in the recent 2 years to ensure that LOL was the major game genre for all the participants (Qiu et al, 2018 ; Gong et al, 2019b ; Gan et al, 2020 ). All the participants were right-handed and had normal or corrected-to-normal vision and no history of mental and neurological diseases.…”

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“…Furthermore, ERP research showed that prolonged ARSG experience (e.g., League of Legends) was related to enhancement of visual attention, which was closely associated with individual differences in the VWM capacity (Qiu et al, 2018 ; Gan et al, 2020 ). Thus, ARSG offers a new perspective on cognitive and neural plasticity (Gong et al, 2015 , 2017 ; Kowalczyk et al, 2018 ; Gong et al, 2019a , b ).…”

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Action Real-Time Strategy Gaming Experience Related to Enhanced Capacity of Visual Working Memory

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Action real-time strategy gaming (ARSG)-a major genre of action video gaming (AVG)-has both action and strategy elements. ARSG requires attention, visual working memory (VWM), sensorimotor skills, team cooperation, and strategy-making abilities, thus offering promising insights into the learning-induced plasticity. However, it is yet unknown whether the ARSG experience is related to the development of VWM capacity. Using both behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) measurements, this study tested whether ARSG experts had larger VWM capacity than non-experts in a change detection task. The behavioral results showed that ARSG experts had higher accuracy and larger VWM capacity than non-experts. In addition, the ERP results revealed that the difference wave of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) component (size 4-size 2) elicited by experts was significantly larger than that of non-experts, suggesting that the VWM capacity was higher in experts than in non-experts. Thus, the findings suggested that prolonged ARSG experience is correlative with the enhancement of VWM.

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“…While AVG training was associated with attentional improvement, the training of match-3 VG resulted in better spatial WM [32]. Although the weaker association between FPS experience and cognitive enhancement in the sample including players with less FPS experience [68] questioned the positive association between VG playing and cognitive function, the reduction of VG playing significantly decreased not only self-reported gaming skills but also brain activities [69]. That is, as certain amount of VG experience is required to show cognitive enhancement (Anguera et al 2015), VG experience was suggested to have the potential to enhance cognitive function and to show near transfer effect.…”

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Commercial video games and cognitive functions: video game genres and modulating factors of cognitive enhancement

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Background: Unlike the emphasis on negative results of video games such as the impulsive engagement in video games, cognitive training studies in individuals with cognitive deficits showed that characteristics of video game elements were helpful to train cognitive functions. Thus, this study aimed to have a more balanced view toward the video game playing by reviewing genres of commercial video games and the association of video games with cognitive functions and modulating factors. Literatures were searched with search terms (e.g. genres of video games, cognitive training) on database and Google scholar. Results: video games, of which purpose is players' entertainment, were found to be positively associated with cognitive functions (e.g. attention, problem solving skills) despite some discrepancy between studies. However, the enhancement of cognitive functions through video gaming was limited to the task or performance requiring the same cognitive functions. Moreover, as several factors (e.g. age, gender) were identified to modulate cognitive enhancement, the individual difference in the association between video game playing and cognitive function was found. Conclusion: Commercial video games are suggested to have the potential for cognitive function enhancement. As understanding the association between video gaming and cognitive function in a more balanced view is essential to evaluate the potential outcomes of commercial video games that more people reported to engage, this review contributes to provide more objective evidence for commercial video gaming.

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“…Participants were recruited following the established procedure used in previous research (Qiu et al, 2018;Gong et al, 2019b). A survey was given, prior to the current study, to a number of participants who were asked to report: (1) their League of Legends (LOL 1 ) Expertise Ranking and gaming experience (in years); (2) their LOL ID which was used to verify their self-reported gaming experience and ranking information, since their LOL Expertise Ranking is provided by the LOL game-the ARSG program used in this study; and (3) their experience (in years) of playing games other than LOL, which was used to exclude multi-genre gamers to ensure LOL was the primary game genre for all the participants recruited in this study.…”

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Action Real-Time Strategy Gaming Experience Related to Increased Attentional Resources: An Attentional Blink Study

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Action real-time strategy gaming (ARSG) is a cognitively demanding task which requires attention, sensorimotor skills, team cooperation, and strategy-making abilities. A recent study found that ARSG experts had superior visual selective attention (VSA) for detecting the location of a moving object that could appear in one of 24 different peripheral locations (Qiu et al., 2018), suggesting that ARSG experience is related to improvements in the spatial component of VSA. However, the influence of ARSG experience on the temporal component of VSA-the detection of an item among a sequence of items presented consecutively and quickly at a single location-still remains understudied. Using behavioral and electrophysiological measures, this study examined whether ARSG experts had superior temporal VSA performance compared to non-experts in an attentional blink (AB) task, which is typically used to examine temporal VSA. The results showed that the experts outperformed the non-experts in their detection rates of targets. Furthermore, compared to the non-experts, the experts had faster information processing as indicated by earlier P3 peak latencies in an AB period, more attentional resources distributed to targets as indicated by stronger P3 amplitudes, and a more flexible deployment of attentional resources. These findings suggest that experts were less prone to the AB effect. Thus, long-term ARSG experience is related to improvements in temporal VSA. The current findings support the benefit of video gaming experience on the development of VSA.

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A Reduction in Video Gaming Time Produced a Decrease in Brain Activity

Cited by 15 publications

References 49 publications

Action Real-Time Strategy Gaming Experience Related to Enhanced Capacity of Visual Working Memory

Action Real-Time Strategy Gaming Experience Related to Enhanced Capacity of Visual Working Memory

Commercial video games and cognitive functions: video game genres and modulating factors of cognitive enhancement

Action Real-Time Strategy Gaming Experience Related to Increased Attentional Resources: An Attentional Blink Study

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