Acute and long-lasting cortical thickness changes following intensive first-person action videogame practice

Momi, Davide; Smeralda, Carmelo; Sprugnoli, Giulia; Ferrone, Salvatore; Rossi, Símone; Rossi, Alessandro; Lorenzo, Giorgio Di; Santarnecchi, Emiliano

doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2018.06.013

Cited by 24 publications

(19 citation statements)

References 117 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…This evolution is changing not only how the video games' community interacts but also the way how empirical evidence is obtained in this field (Tang, 2018). For examples, researchers who have studied the effects of video games on cognition acknowledged that the effects found so far could be uncertain if the individual characteristics and the constant evolution of each video game and gamers is not considered (Dale & Green, 2017;Momi et al, 2018).…”

Section: Transition From Video Games To Esportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…That is, positive effects of training/participation were found in working memory tasks such as spatial resolution and mental rotation in Unreal Tournament, Tetris, CoD, and CS:GO (C.S. Green & Bavelier, 2007;Lau-Zhu, Holmes, Butterfield, & Holmes, 2017;Momi et al, 2018;Okagaki & Frensch, 1994;Seya & Shinoda, 2016;Terlecki, Newcombe, & Little, 2008), but some counter-evidence exists of the effects of esports training in working memory tasks in Dota 2 and Tetris (Boot et al, 2008;Pilegard & Mayer, 2018;Röhlcke, Bäcklund, Sörman, & Jonsson, 2018).…”

Section: Working Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, authors have suggested that some games share identical characteristics across genres (e.g., FPS, MOBA, etc. ), but some have unique elements that need to be considered individually (e.g., CS:GO; Dale & Green, 2017;Momi et al, 2018). Also, the biosocial influence of competition has to be considered, as playing against the artificial intelligence of the game (i.e., bots) is not the same as playing against humans.…”

Section: Game Performance In Esportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

Pedraza-Ramirez

Musculus

Raab

et al. 2020

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

161

130

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Competitive gaming, better known as electronic sports (esports), is rapidly growing in popularity. We systematically reviewed the available literature regarding the psychological aspects of esports using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) evidence-based reporting checklist and a Population, Intervention, Comparator, and Outcomes (PICO) framework with the following inclusion criteria: (i) published between 1994 and 2018; (ii) empirical investigation (as the current state of research is dense with positions and opinions but has few empirical investigations); and (iii) focussed on esports games that are associated with either cognitive performance or game performance. The goal of our research was twofold: to present a summary of the empirical evidence addressing the psychological characteristics of both cognitive and game performance in esports, and to integrate esports in the field of sport psychology. More specifically, our goals were to highlight the interplay of psychological aspects of performance and esports and to clearly define the theoretical foundations of the psychological aspects of esports performance. Underlining the differences from video gaming will inform future research directions and stimulate the development of high-quality practice in the applied field of sports and exercise psychology.

show abstract

Section: Transition From Video Games To Esportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Working Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Game Performance In Esportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

Pedraza-Ramirez

Musculus

Raab

et al. 2020

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

161

130

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Only a few studies have explored pre-existing neural characteristics in the case of learning how to play video games, as an example of complex skill acquisition. Momi in 2018 (38) identified that lingual gyrus is involved in the ability to predict the trajectories of moving objects in action video games. Other researchers have mostly investigated the volumetric characteristics of the basal ganglia, a group of subcortical nuclei involved in motor and procedural learning, as well as in reward learning and memory (39)(40)(41).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lenticular nucleus volume predicts performance in real-time strategy game - cross-sectional and training approach using voxel-based morphometry

Kowalczyk

Skorko

Dobrowolski

et al. 2020

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

It is unclear why some people learn faster than others. We performed two independent studies in which we investigated the neural basis of real-time strategy (RTS) gaming and neural predictors of RTS games skill-acquisition. In the first (cross-sectional) study we found that experts in the RTS game StarCraft II (SC2) had a larger lenticular nucleus volume than non-RTS players. We followed a cross validation procedure where we used the volume of regions identified in the first study to predict the quality of learning a new, complex skill (SC2) in a sample of individuals who were naïve to RTS games (second training study). Our findings provide new insights into how the volume of lenticular nucleus, which is associated with motor as well as cognitive functions, can be utilized to predict successful skill-learning, and be applied to a much broader context than just video games, e.g. contributing to optimizing cognitive training interventions.

show abstract

“…Increased gray matter volume of the entorhinal cortex has previously been associated with improved performance on games that rely on geometric relationships, such as Tetris and Minesweeper, as well as platform games, such as Super Mario 64 (Kühn & Gallinat, 2014). One study also found an increase in gray matter thickness of bilateral parahippocampal cortex following 15 daily gaming sessions on a first-person shooter platform, with long-lasting changes in the left parahippocampal cortex (Momi, et al, 2018). The authors argued that detailed environmental mapping of the virtual arena conferred a competitive advantage as evidenced by continued navigation during episodes of virtual blindness (i.e., when hit by smoke or flashbang grenades).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

A structure-function substrate of memory for spatial configurations in medial and lateral temporal cortices

Tavakol

Royer

et al. 2020

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Prior research has shown that structures of the mesiotemporal lobe, particularly the hippocampal-parahippocampal complex, are engaged in different forms of spatial cognition. Here, we developed a new paradigm, the Conformational Shift Spatial task (CSST), which examines the ability to encode and retrieve spatial relations between three unrelated items. This task is short, uses symbolic cues, and incorporates two difficulty levels and can be administered inside and outside the scanner. A cohort of 48 healthy young adults underwent the CSST, together with a set of validated behavioral measures and multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Interindividual differences in CSST performance correlated with scores on an established spatial memory paradigm, but neither with episodic memory nor pattern separation performance, highlighting the specificity of the new measure. Analyzing high resolution structural MRI data, individuals with better spatial memory showed thicker medial as well as lateral temporal cortices. Functional relevance of these findings was supported by task-based functional MRI analysis in the same participants and ad hoc meta-analysis. Exploratory resting-state functional MRI analyses centered on clusters of morphological effects revealed additional modulation of intrinsic network integration, particularly between lateral and medial temporal structures. Our work presents a novel spatial memory paradigm and supports an integrated structure-function substrate in the human temporal lobe. Task paradigms are programmed in python and made open access.

show abstract

Acute and long-lasting cortical thickness changes following intensive first-person action videogame practice

Cited by 24 publications

References 117 publications

Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

Lenticular nucleus volume predicts performance in real-time strategy game - cross-sectional and training approach using voxel-based morphometry

A structure-function substrate of memory for spatial configurations in medial and lateral temporal cortices

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About