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| Title |
The virtual brain: 30 years of video-game play and cognitive abilities
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00629 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Andrew J. Latham, Lucy L. M. Patston, Lynette J. Tippett |
| Abstract |
Forty years have passed since video-games were first made widely available to the public and subsequently playing games has become a favorite past-time for many. Players continuously engage with dynamic visual displays with success contingent on the time-pressured deployment, and flexible allocation, of attention as well as precise bimanual movements. Evidence to date suggests that both brief and extensive exposure to video-game play can result in a broad range of enhancements to various cognitive faculties that generalize beyond the original context. Despite promise, video-game research is host to a number of methodological issues that require addressing before progress can be made in this area. Here an effort is made to consolidate the past 30 years of literature examining the effects of video-game play on cognitive faculties and, more recently, neural systems. Future work is required to identify the mechanism that allows the act of video-game play to generate such a broad range of generalized enhancements. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 2 | 14% |
| India | 2 | 14% |
| Norway | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 7 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 71% |
| Scientists | 3 | 21% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 249 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 6 | 2% |
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| Germany | 3 | 1% |
| Japan | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 2% |
| Unknown | 225 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 17% |
| Researcher | 36 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 35 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 34 | 14% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 11 | 4% |
| Other | 42 | 17% |
| Unknown | 49 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 73 | 29% |
| Computer Science | 21 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 19 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 6% |
| Other | 47 | 19% |
| Unknown | 60 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 510. 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 21 November 2023.
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