Attentional modulation as a mechanism for enhanced facial emotion discrimination: The case of action video game players.
Action video game players (AVGPs) outperform nonvideo game players (NVGPs) on a wide variety of attentional tasks, mediating benefits to perceptual and cognitive decision processes. A key issue in the literature is the extent to which such benefits transfer beyond cognition. Using steady-state visua...
| Publicado en: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 276 - 290 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=162727515&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 162727515 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15307026 NA4 jtl: Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience issn: 15307026 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2023 vid: 23 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 162727515 161392595 10.3758/s13415-022-01055-3 162727515 ppf: 276 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Attentional modulation as a mechanism for enhanced facial emotion discrimination: The case of action video game players. aug: au: Ciobanu, Alina Shibata, Kengo Ali, Lna Rioja, Kenneth Andersen, Søren K. Bavelier, Daphne Bediou, Benoit affil: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland sug: ab: Action video game players (AVGPs) outperform nonvideo game players (NVGPs) on a wide variety of attentional tasks, mediating benefits to perceptual and cognitive decision processes. A key issue in the literature is the extent to which such benefits transfer beyond cognition. Using steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) as a neural measure of attentional resource allocation, we investigated whether the attentional benefit of AVGPs generalizes to the processing of rapidly presented facial emotions. AVGPs (n = 36) and NVGPs (n = 32) performed a novel, attention-demanding emotion discrimination task, requiring the identification of a target emotion in one of two laterally presented streams of emotional faces. The emotional faces flickered at either 2.0 Hz or 2.5 Hz. AVGPs outperformed NVGPs at detecting the target emotions regardless of the type of emotion. Correspondingly, attentional modulation of the SSVEP at parieto-occipital recording sites was larger in AVGPs compared with NVGPs. This difference appeared to be driven by a larger response to attended information, as opposed to a reduced response to irrelevant distractor information. Exploratory analyses confirmed that this novel paradigm elicited the expected pattern of event-related potentials associated with target detection and error processing. These components did not, however, differ between groups. Overall, the results indicate enhanced discrimination of facial emotions in AVGPs arising from enhanced attentional processing of emotional information. This presents evidence for the attentional advantage of AVGPs to extend beyond perceptual and cognitive processes. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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