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

Green, C S; Bavelier, Daphné

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01853.x

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“…Playing these games can increase children's visual processing capacity in areas, which are components of the particular game. Such improved visual processing may have applications for rehabilitation (Green and Bavelier 2007).…”

Section: Visual and Motor Developmentmentioning

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Principles for the wise use of computers by children

2009

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Computer use by children at home and school is now common in many countries. Child computer exposure varies with the type of computer technology available and the child's age, gender and social group. This paper reviews the current exposure data and the evidence for positive and negative effects of computer use by children. Potential positive effects of computer use by children include enhanced cognitive development and school achievement, reduced barriers to social interaction, enhanced fine motor skills and visual processing and effective rehabilitation. Potential negative effects include threats to child safety, inappropriate content, exposure to violence, bullying, Internet 'addiction', displacement of moderate/vigorous physical activity, exposure to junk food advertising, sleep displacement, vision problems and musculoskeletal problems. The case for child specific evidence-based guidelines for wise use of computers is presented based on children using computers differently to adults, being physically, cognitively and socially different to adults, being in a state of change and development and the potential to impact on later adult risk. Progress towards child-specific guidelines is reported. Finally, a set of guideline principles is presented as the basis for more detailed guidelines on the physical, cognitive and social impact of computer use by children. The principles cover computer literacy, technology safety, child safety and privacy and appropriate social, cognitive and physical development. The majority of children in affluent communities now have substantial exposure to computers. This is likely to have significant effects on child physical, cognitive and social development. Ergonomics can provide and promote guidelines for wise use of computers by children and by doing so promote the positive effects and reduce the negative effects of computer-child, and subsequent computer-adult, interaction.

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Section: Visual and Motor Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2009

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“…For example, Green and Bavelier [38] claimed that excessive playing video games can alter fundamental characteristics of the visual system, such as the spatial resolution of visual processing across the visual field. Swing [39] reported a positive correlation between video game experience and a composite index of symptoms related to attention deficits and hyperactivity.…”

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The Influence of Background Music of Video Games on Immersion

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2015

J Psychol Psychother

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The background music has been proved to be an indispensable part in every successful video game. At the same time, all the video game designers and players hope video games could be as immersive as possible. Present research aimed to make an investigation about the role of video games background music in the influence of players' subjective immersion. Eighty participants were employed according to their game experience to join the experiment. All of them were assigned in pairs to finish a same video game synchronously with local area network. One was with earphone while the other not. After 20 minutes' gameplay, they needed to complete three missions (questionnaire, task after game and time distortion) with the purpose of detecting their immersion during video game. The results showed that the participants with background music got significant higher scores from questionnaire, performed worse in after-game task and expressed more serious time distortion than those participants without hearing background music. But these changes just happened to low gamers in the questionnaire and time distortion. Besides, correlations were made to find that only the questionnaire scores and time distortion were significantly related. These results of present research showed that background music did increase participants' immersion. But this improvement was likely just happened in low gamers.

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“…In humans, epidemiological studies have explored a wide number of factors that have been suggested to reduce age-related cognitive decline including both formal and informal education, leisure pursuits, intellectual engagement, physical fitness training, and expertise in different skill domains such as music, computer-game playing, language translation or meditation [75]. Playing computer games appears to improve certain aspects of visual attention such as spatial resolution and number of objects being tracked, which in turn could improve visual memory [48]. Perhaps the best established techniques for cognitive enhancement are healthy diet and physical exercise; several epidemiological studies have revealed significant correlations between physical exercise and cognition [27,124].…”

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Techniques and devices to restore cognition

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Kahana

2008

Behavioural Brain Research

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Executive planning, the ability to direct and sustain attention, language and several types of memory may be compromised by conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, cancer, autism, cerebral palsy and Alzheimer's disease. No medical devices are currently available to help restore these cognitive functions. Recent findings about the neurophysiology of these conditions in humans coupled with progress in engineering devices to treat refractory neurological conditions imply that the time has arrived to consider the design and evaluation of a new class of devices. Like their neuromotor counterparts, neurocognitive prostheses might sense or modulate neural function in a non-invasive manner or by means of implanted electrodes. In order to paint a vision for future device development, it is essential to first review what can be achieved using behavioral and external modulatory techniques. While non-invasive approaches might strengthen a patient's remaining intact cognitive abilities, neurocognitive prosthetics comprised of direct brain-computer interfaces could in theory physically reconstitute and augment the substrate of cognition itself.

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

Cited by 722 publications

References 35 publications

Principles for the wise use of computers by children

Principles for the wise use of computers by children

The Influence of Background Music of Video Games on Immersion

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