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| Title |
Real-Time Strategy Game Training: Emergence of a Cognitive Flexibility Trait
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0070350 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Brian D. Glass, W. Todd Maddox, Bradley C. Love |
| Abstract |
Training in action video games can increase the speed of perceptual processing. However, it is unknown whether video-game training can lead to broad-based changes in higher-level competencies such as cognitive flexibility, a core and neurally distributed component of cognition. To determine whether video gaming can enhance cognitive flexibility and, if so, why these changes occur, the current study compares two versions of a real-time strategy (RTS) game. Using a meta-analytic Bayes factor approach, we found that the gaming condition that emphasized maintenance and rapid switching between multiple information and action sources led to a large increase in cognitive flexibility as measured by a wide array of non-video gaming tasks. Theoretically, the results suggest that the distributed brain networks supporting cognitive flexibility can be tuned by engrossing video game experience that stresses maintenance and rapid manipulation of multiple information sources. Practically, these results suggest avenues for increasing cognitive function. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 332 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 41 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 19 | 6% |
| Korea, Republic of | 11 | 3% |
| Japan | 8 | 2% |
| Spain | 7 | 2% |
| Germany | 7 | 2% |
| Thailand | 7 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 7 | 2% |
| France | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 38 | 11% |
| Unknown | 181 | 55% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 288 | 87% |
| Scientists | 33 | 10% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 9 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 445 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 2% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 8 | 2% |
| Unknown | 416 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 81 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 69 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 67 | 15% |
| Researcher | 56 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 31 | 7% |
| Other | 82 | 18% |
| Unknown | 59 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 160 | 36% |
| Computer Science | 40 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 32 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 18 | 4% |
| Other | 91 | 20% |
| Unknown | 84 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 655. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 February 2023.
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#33,603
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#562
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#162
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#10
of 4,842 outputs
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