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Action Video Games Do Not Improve the Speed of Information Processing in Simple Perceptual Tasks.

Previous research suggests that playing action video games improves performance on sensory, perceptual, and attentional tasks. For instance, Green, Pouget, and Bavelier (2010) used the diffusion model to decompose data from a motion detection task and estimate the contribution of several underlying...

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Published in:Journal of Experimental Psychology. General Vol. 143; no. 5; pp. 1794 - 1806
Main Authors: Ravenzwaaij, Don van, Boekel, Wouter, Forstmann, Birte U., Ratcliff, Roger, Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association Oct2014
Subjects:
Video games & psychology
Sensory perception
Information processing
Perceptual control theory
Perceptual learning
Differentiation (Cognition)
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