Cognitive enhancement through action video game training: great expectations require greater evidence
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Cognitive enhancement through action video game training: great expectations require greater evidence
Action video game training may hold promise as a cognitive intervention with the potential to enhance daily functioning and remediate impairments, but this must be more thoroughly evaluated through evidence-based practices. We review current research on the effect of action video game training on visual attention and visuospatial processing, executive functions, and learning and memory. Focusin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00136