In:
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Press, Vol. 24, No. 6 ( 2012-06-01), p. 1286-1293
Abstract:
Playing a first-person shooter (FPS) video game alters the neural processes that support spatial selective attention. Our experiment establishes a causal relationship between playing an FPS game and neuroplastic change. Twenty-five participants completed an attentional visual field task while we measured ERPs before and after playing an FPS video game for a cumulative total of 10 hr. Early visual ERPs sensitive to bottom–up attentional processes were little affected by video game playing for only 10 hr. However, participants who played the FPS video game and also showed the greatest improvement on the attentional visual field task displayed increased amplitudes in the later visual ERPs. These potentials are thought to index top–down enhancement of spatial selective attention via increased inhibition of distractors. Individual variations in learning were observed, and these differences show that not all video game players benefit equally, either behaviorally or in terms of neural change.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0898-929X
,
1530-8898
DOI:
10.1162/jocn_a_00192
Language:
English
Publisher:
MIT Press
Publication Date:
2012
SSG:
5,2
SSG:
7,11
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