| Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players. | |
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PMID: 21062660 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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Recent research has shown that avid action video game players (VGPs) outperform non-video game players (NVGPs) on a variety of attentional and perceptual tasks. However, it remains unknown exactly why and how such differences arise; while some prior research has demonstrated that VGPs' improvements stem from enhanced basic perceptual processes, other work indicates that they can stem from enhanced attentional control. The current experiment used a change-detection task to explore whether top-down strategies can contribute to VGPs' improved abilities. Participants viewed alternating presentations of an image and a modified version of the image and were tasked with detecting and localizing the changed element. Consistent with prior claims of enhanced perceptual abilities, VGPs were able to detect the changes while requiring less exposure to the change than NVGPs. Further analyses revealed this improved change detection performance may result from altered strategy use; VGPs employed broader search patterns when scanning scenes for potential changes. These results complement prior demonstrations of VGPs' enhanced bottom-up perceptual benefits by providing new evidence of VGPs' potentially enhanced top-down strategic benefits. |
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Kait Clark; Mathias S Fleck; Stephen R Mitroff |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Date: 2010-11-09 |
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Title: Acta psychologica Volume: 136 ISSN: 1873-6297 ISO Abbreviation: Acta Psychol (Amst) Publication Date: 2011 Jan |
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Created Date: 2011-01-10 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0370366 Medline TA: Acta Psychol (Amst) Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 67-72 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, United States. kait.clark@duke.edu |
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