Are videogame training gains specific or general?

• Main Authors: Oei, Adam C, Patterson, Michael D
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104123; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19505
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Many recent studies using healthy adults document enhancements in perception and cognition from playing commercial action videogames (AVGs). Playing action games (e.g., Call of Duty, Medal of Honor) is associated with improved bottom-up lower-level information processing skills like visual-perceptua...