Enhancing perceptual and attentional skills requires common demands between the action video games and transfer tasks

• Main Authors: Oei, Adam C., Patterson, Michael D
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107223; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25559
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Despite increasing evidence that shows action video game play improves perceptual and cognitive skills, the mechanisms of transfer are not well-understood. In line with previous work, we suggest that transfer is dependent upon common demands between the game and transfer task. In the current study,...