Effects of video game playing on visual functions

Bavelier, Daphné; Green, C. Shawn

doi:10.1167/4.11.23

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“…Recently, there has also been a growing interest in the use of video games to train basic cognitive functions. This hinges on the possibly of transferring skills learned during a game to other cognitive tasks (Basak, Boot, Voss, & Kramer, ; Bavelier & Green, ; Boot, Kramer, Simons, Fabiani, & Gratton, ; Boot et al., ; Dahlin, Neely, Larsson, Bäckman, & Nyberg, ; Dye & Bavelier, ; Dye, Green, & Bavelier, ; Frederickson & White, ; Gopher et al., ; Green & Bavelier, ). As training may be expensive in terms of both time and costs, it would be very useful to be able to identify ahead of time those individuals for whom training would not only be most expedient and beneficial, but also for whom transfer outside of the training regime scope would be optimal.…”

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Different slopes for different folks: Alpha and deltaEEGpower predict subsequent video game learning rate and improvements in cognitive control tasks

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We hypothesized that control processes, as measured using electrophysiological (EEG) variables, influence the rate of learning of complex tasks. Specifically, we measured alpha power, event-related spectral perturbations (ERSPs), and event-related brain potentials during early training of the Space Fortress task, and correlated these measures with subsequent learning rate and performance in transfer tasks. Once initial score was partialled out, the best predictors were frontal alpha power and alpha and delta ERSPs, but not P300. By combining these predictors, we could explain about 50% of the learning rate variance and 10%-20% of the variance in transfer to other tasks using only pretraining EEG measures. Thus, control processes, as indexed by alpha and delta EEG oscillations, can predict learning and skill improvements. The results are of potential use to optimize training regimes.

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“…With many technological advances, video game popularity has soared, and research on computerized cognitive training (CCT) has grown. Green and Bavelier (2003, 2004, 2006a, 2006b, 2007, 2008) evaluated the effects of playing video games on perceptual and motor skills, attracting more attention to them as cognitive training tools (Green et al, 2010), and increasing numbers of commercial programs have offered “brain training,” “brain games,” or “cognitive rehabilitation,” with claims that they stimulate neuroplasticity, contribute to healthy brain aging, stave off cognitive decline, and improve cognitive functions in real-world activities. Statistically significant improvements have been observed for hand-eye coordination, processing speed, working memory, episodic memory, reasoning, verbal memory, word recognition, attention, and letter number sequencing (Bonnechère et al, 2020; Shah et al, 2017).…”

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Video Game Play Does Not Improve Spatial Skills When Controlling for Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Evidence From Mental-Rotation and Mental-Folding Tasks

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Researchers have been divided on the efficacy of computerized cognitive training (CCT) for enhancing spatial abilities, transfer of training, and improving malleability of skills. In this study, we assessed the effects of puzzle video game training on subsequent mental rotation (MR) and mental folding (MF) performance among adults with no cognitive impairment. We assessed participants at baseline with the Shepard-Metzler MR test followed by the differential aptitude test: space relations MF test (i.e., far transfer). We ranked participants’ skills on these pre-tests and used a matching technique to form two skill groups from which we then randomly assigned members of each skill group either to an experimental group or a wait-list control group. The experimental group played two puzzle video games closely related to two-dimensional and three-dimensional MR tasks during 4-week training sessions (total of 12 hour of video games). Post-training, participants completed the MR and MF tests again. Two months later, we re-assessed only the experimental group’s spatial skills to explore the sustainability of the trained performance. In addition to response times (RT) and error scores (ES), reported separately, we combined these variables into rate correct scores (RCS) to form an integrated measure of potential speed-accuracy trade-offs (SAT). As a result, we did not find significant improvements in MR performance from CCT engagement, nor did participants show a transfer of skills obtained by practicing MR-related puzzle games to a MF task. Based on the current findings, we urge caution when proposing a game-based intervention as a training tool to enhance spatial abilities. We argue that separately interpreting individual test measures can be misleading, as they only partially represent performance. In contrast, composite scores illuminate underlying cognitive strategies and best determine whether an observed improvement is attributable to enhanced capacities or individual heuristics and learned cognitive shortcuts.

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Pulsed Out of Awareness: EEG Alpha Oscillations Represent a Pulsed-Inhibition of Ongoing Cortical Processing

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Lleras²,

Beck³

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Alpha oscillations are ubiquitous in the brain, but their role in cortical processing remains a matter of debate. Recently, evidence has begun to accumulate in support of a role for alpha oscillations in attention selection and control. Here we first review evidence that 8–12 Hz oscillations in the brain have a general inhibitory role in cognitive processing, with an emphasis on their role in visual processing. Then, we summarize the evidence in support of our recent proposal that alpha represents a pulsed-inhibition of ongoing neural activity. The phase of the ongoing electroencephalography can influence evoked activity and subsequent processing, and we propose that alpha exerts its inhibitory role through alternating microstates of inhibition and excitation. Finally, we discuss evidence that this pulsed-inhibition can be entrained to rhythmic stimuli in the environment, such that preferential processing occurs for stimuli at predictable moments. The entrainment of preferential phase may provide a mechanism for temporal attention in the brain. This pulsed inhibitory account of alpha has important implications for many common cognitive phenomena, such as the attentional blink, and seems to indicate that our visual experience may at least some times be coming through in waves.

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Effects of video game playing on visual functions

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Different slopes for different folks: Alpha and deltaEEGpower predict subsequent video game learning rate and improvements in cognitive control tasks

Different slopes for different folks: Alpha and deltaEEGpower predict subsequent video game learning rate and improvements in cognitive control tasks

Video Game Play Does Not Improve Spatial Skills When Controlling for Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Evidence From Mental-Rotation and Mental-Folding Tasks

Pulsed Out of Awareness: EEG Alpha Oscillations Represent a Pulsed-Inhibition of Ongoing Cortical Processing

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