The Effects of Videogame Playing on the Response Selection Processing of Elderly Adults

Clark, Jane E.; Lanphear, Ann K.; Riddick, Carol Cutler

doi:10.1093/geronj/42.1.82

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“…Accuracy was stressed rather than speed. Response speed was not stressed, to ensure that performance differences between the groups would reflect the information available in VSTM rather than other factors related to producing a speeded response that are known to be enhanced by video game play (Castel, Pratt, & Drummond, 2005;Clark, Lanphear, & Riddick, 1987;Dye et al, 2009b). This was especially important due to the well-documented faster response times observed amongst AVGPs (Dye et al, 2009b).…”

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Enhanced visual short-term memory in action video game players

Blacker

Curby

2013

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is critical for acquiring visual knowledge and shows marked individual variability. Previous work has illustrated a VSTM advantage among action video game players (Boot et al. Acta Psychologica 129:387-398, 2008). A growing body of literature has suggested that action video game playing can bolster visual cognitive abilities in a domain-general manner, including abilities related to visual attention and the speed of processing, providing some potential bases for this VSTM advantage. In the present study, we investigated the VSTM advantage among video game players and assessed whether enhanced processing speed can account for this advantage. Experiment 1, using simple colored stimuli, revealed that action video game players demonstrate a similar VSTM advantage over nongamers, regardless of whether they are given limited or ample time to encode items into memory. Experiment 2, using complex shapes as the stimuli to increase the processing demands of the task, replicated this VSTM advantage, irrespective of encoding duration. These findings are inconsistent with a speed-of-processing account of this advantage. An alternative, attentional account, grounded in the existing literature on the visuocognitive consequences of video game play, is discussed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhanced visual short-term memory in action video game players

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Curby

2013

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…In older adults, it has been observed that after several weeks of video game training elderly game players showed improvements when compared with control groups on reaction time (e.g., Clark, Lanphear, & Riddick, 1987;Goldstein et al, 1997), manual dexterity (Drew & Waters, 1986), visuomotor coordination (Dustman, Emmerson, Steinhaus, Shearer, & Dustman, 1992) and executive control functions such as task switching, working memory, visual short-term memory and reasoning (Basak, Boot, Voss, & Kramer, 2008). However, there are reasons to question whether there is general transfer of video game play to cognitive domains.…”

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Effects of interactive physical-activity video-game training on physical and cognitive function in older adults.

Maillot¹,

Perrot²,

Hartley³

2012

Psychology and Aging

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The purpose of the present study was to assess the potential of exergame training based on physically simulated sport play as a mode of physical activity that could have cognitive benefits for older adults. If exergame play has the cognitive benefits of conventional physical activity and also has the intrinsic attractiveness of video games, then it might be a very effective way to induce desirable lifestyle changes in older adults. To examine this issue, the authors developed an active video game training program using a pretest-training-posttest design comparing an experimental group (24 ϫ 1 hr of training) with a control group without treatment. Participants completed a battery of neuropsychological tests, assessing executive control, visuospatial functions, and processing speed, to measure the cognitive impact of the program. They were also given a battery of functional fitness tests to measure the physical impact of the program. The trainees improved significantly in measures of game performance. They also improved significantly more than the control participants in measures of physical function and cognitive measures of executive control and processing speed, but not on visuospatial measures. It was encouraging to observe that, engagement in physically simulated sport games yielded benefits to cognitive and physical skills that are directly involved in functional abilities older adults need in everyday living (e.g., Hultsch, Hertzog, Small, & Dixon, 1999).

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“…For example, gamification -the application of game elements in a non-game context [13] -has successfully been applied to increase volitional engagement in a variety of contexts [44]. Game-based training has been shown to improve working memory capacity [45], task switching ability [Ibid], visual-short term memory [Ibid], verbal reasoning [Ibid; [46]], visuospatial reasoning [47,48], response selection [49], visual attention [50,51], reaction time [52,53], and choice reaction time [54,55].…”

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Improving the Efficacy of Cognitive Training for Digital Mental Health Interventions Through Avatar Customization: Crowdsourced Quasi-Experimental Study (Preprint)

Birk¹,

Mandryk²

2018

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Background: The success of Internet-based mental health interventions in practice -i.e., in-the-wild -depends on the uptake and retention of the application and the user's focused attention in the moment of use. Incorporating game-based motivational design into digital interventions delivered in-the-wild has been shown to increase uptake and retention in Internet-based training; however, there are outstanding questions about the potential of game-based motivational strategies to increase engagement with a task in the moment of use, and -as a result -improve intervention efficacy without accompanying increases in treatment exposure. Objective: Designers of Internet-based interventions need to know whether game-based motivational design strategies can increase in-the-moment engagement and thus improve intervention efficacy. We investigate the effects of one motivational design strategy (avatar customization) in an example mental health intervention (computerized cognitive training for attention bias modification). Methods: We assigned 317 participants to either a customized avatar or an assigned avatar condition. After measuring state-anxiety (STAI), we randomly assigned half of the participants in each condition to either an attentional retraining condition (ABMT) or a control condition. After training, participants were exposed to a Negative Mood Induction using images with strong negative valance (IAPS), after which we measured state-anxiety again. Results: Avatar customization improved treatment efficacy, evidenced as decreased posttraining state-anxiety when controlling for baseline state-anxiety, for those who trained attention bias modification; however, those who did not train experienced decreased resilience to the negative mood induction (F 1,252 =6.86, P=.009, η p

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The Effects of Videogame Playing on the Response Selection Processing of Elderly Adults

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Enhanced visual short-term memory in action video game players

Enhanced visual short-term memory in action video game players

Effects of interactive physical-activity video-game training on physical and cognitive function in older adults.

Improving the Efficacy of Cognitive Training for Digital Mental Health Interventions Through Avatar Customization: Crowdsourced Quasi-Experimental Study (Preprint)

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