The cognitive effects of playing video games with a navigational component

McLaren-Gradinaru, Michael; Burles, Ford; Protzner, Andrea B.; Iaria, Giuseppe

doi:10.1016/j.teler.2023.100043

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“…When conducting a model with self-reported sleep duration specified as a quadratic term, we did not find a significant association between self-reported sleep duration and human spatial navigation performance. This finding may contradict previous findings showing that those with mid-range sleep durations have better cognitive performance than those with shorter and longer sleep durations, in both navigation-related 16 and non-navigation-related cognitive tasks 7 , 25 , 28 , 44 , 47 – 49 . For example, a recent study found a U-shaped association between sleep duration and wayfinding performance on SHQ, where 7 h of self-reported sleep on a typical night was associated with optimal wayfinding performance 16 .…”

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Shorter self-reported sleep duration is associated with worse virtual spatial navigation performance in men

Yavuz,

Gahnstrom,

Goodroe

et al. 2024

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Sleep has been shown to impact navigation ability. However, it remains unclear how different sleep-related variables may be independently associated with spatial navigation performance, and as to whether gender may play a role in these associations. We used a mobile video game app, Sea Hero Quest (SHQ), to measure wayfinding ability in US-based participants. Wayfinding performance on SHQ has been shown to correlate with real-world wayfinding. Participants were asked to report their sleep duration, quality, daytime sleepiness and nap frequency and duration on a typical night (n = 766, 335 men, 431 women, mean age = 26.5 years, range = 18–59 years). A multiple linear regression was used to identify which self-reported sleep variables were independently associated with wayfinding performance. Shorter self-reported sleep durations were significantly associated with worse wayfinding performance in men only. Other self-reported sleep variables showed non-significant trends of association with wayfinding performance. When removing non-typical sleepers (< 6 or > 9 h of sleep on a typical night), the significant association between sleep duration and spatial navigation performance in men was no longer present. These findings from U.S.-based participants suggest that a longer self-reported sleep duration may be an important contributor to successful navigation ability in men.

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Shorter self-reported sleep duration is associated with worse virtual spatial navigation performance in men

Yavuz,

Gahnstrom,

Goodroe

et al. 2024

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“…Ultimately, boys having more gaming experience than girls did not explain any of the observed results. This seems to contrast with the literature, which has established a reasonably robust correlation between practice with videogames and enhancement of visuospatial skills and spatial navigation (e.g., [18][19][20]). However, Milani et al [21] clarified that the positive effects on spatial competencies are related to the type of visuospatial skill measured.…”

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Application of Virtual Reality in Spatial Memory

Cimadevilla,

Nori,

Piccardi

2023

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“…We did not find a significant interaction between gender and any of the sleep-related variables we measured on human spatial navigation performance. One possible explanation for this could be due to gender differences in other variables such as gaming experience, which we also included in our model, that has previously been shown to be associated with wayfinding performance on SHQ 39 and was shown to mitigate differences in other domains of spatial cognition including mental rotation and perspective taking 50 . Thus, controlling for video game experience may have mitigated gender differences in the association between self-reported sleep duration, self-reported sleep quality and self-reported time spent awake during the night and human spatial navigation performance.…”

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Shorter self-reported sleep duration in men is associated with worse virtual spatial navigation performance

Yavuz,

Lazar,

Gahnstrom

et al. 2023

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Sleep has been shown to impact navigation ability. However, it remains unclear how different sleep-related variables may be independently associated with spatial navigation performance, and as to whether gender may play a role in these associations. We used a mobile video game app, Sea Hero Quest (SHQ), to measure wayfinding ability in US-based participants. Wayfinding performance on SHQ has been shown to correlate with real-world wayfinding. Participants were asked to report their sleep duration, quality, daytime sleepiness and nap frequency and duration (n = 737, 409 men, 328 women, mean age = 27.1 years, range = 18-59 years). A multivariate linear regression was used to identify which sleep variables were independently associated with wayfinding performance. For men, longer sleep durations were associated with better wayfinding performance. For women, no such association was found. While other sleep variables showed trends of association with wayfinding performance, none of these were significantly associated with wayfinding performance in our regression model. These findings from younger U.S.-based participants suggest that a longer sleep duration may be an important contributor to successful navigation ability in men.

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The cognitive effects of playing video games with a navigational component

Cited by 6 publications

References 64 publications

Shorter self-reported sleep duration is associated with worse virtual spatial navigation performance in men

Shorter self-reported sleep duration is associated with worse virtual spatial navigation performance in men

Application of Virtual Reality in Spatial Memory

Shorter self-reported sleep duration in men is associated with worse virtual spatial navigation performance

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