Science Alexander Shyrokov on 03 Sep 2008 10:59 am
Action video games and visual attention
I came across an interesting paper Action video game modifies visual selective attention by C. Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier. The paper describes a few experiments designed to see the difference in visual attention of people who play action video games and people who do not. Interestingly enough:
…although video-game playing may seem to be rather mindless, it is capable of radically altering visual attentional processing.
This altering allows gamers to perform better on certain tasks.
Alexander Shyrokov
