Playing action video games enhances several different aspects of visual processing; however, the mechanisms underlying this improvement remain unclear. Here we show that playing action video games can alter fundamental characteristics of the visual system, such as the spatial resolution of visual processing across the visual field. To determine the spatial resolution of visual processing, we me...

I. Introduction A. Purpose In 1975, when Atari released the home‐consumer version of its arcade hit Pong, it was probably hard to imagine how huge the video game industry would be in 2009. Even though it is relatively young, the video game industry has quickly grown from small companies operating out of garages to multi‐national companies contributing to the billion dollar industry. Pioneers fr...

We examined the relation of action video game practice and the optimization of executive control skills that are needed to coordinate two different tasks. As action video games are similar to real life situations and complex in nature, and include numerous concurrent actions, they may generate an ideal environment for practicing these skills (Green & Bavelier, 2008). For two types of experiment...

Recent advances in commercial technology increase the use of stereoscopy in games. While current applications display existing games in realtime rendered stereoscopic 3D, future games will also feature S3D video as part of the virtual game world, in interactive S3D movies, or for new interaction methods. Compared to the rendering of 2D video within a 3D game scene, displaying S3D video includes...