Visual context processing and its development in gamers and non‐gamers

Abstract

Visual context processing was investigated in both action video game players and nonplayers using the Ebbinghaus illusion task (N = 312, 39.4% female) in a cross‐sectional study design. When presented in context, players showed markedly poorer target size discrimination accuracy compared with nonplayers in the 6‐, 7‐, 8‐, and 9‐years old age groups, but this difference was reduced in 10‐years old group and diminished in adults. When presented in isolation (no‐context), the two groups displayed similar performance in all age groups. Furthermore, nonplayers (linear) and players (bell curve) showed profoundly different age‐related differences in context processing. These findings provide evidence that players might have enhanced perceptual bias to process visual context in the transition from early childhood to early adolescence, and the differences between the two groups start at early ages and continue with distinct developmental profiles.

The effects of size referents in user‐generated photos on online review helpfulness

“…The present article lends support for the law of perceptual relativity (Marks, 1980;Wundt, 1894), which has been well documented in a variety of contexts such as face perception (Russell & Fehr, 1987), food evaluation (Zellner et al, 2002), and video games (Kütük et al, 2023). Our studies showed that it applies to the context of online shopping as well.…”