What would my avatar do? Video games and risky decision making

Bailey, Kira

doi:10.31274/etd-180810-2405

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“…For example, in the study by Bailey and colleagues (2013) introduced earlier, the authors mentioned that the participants also completed the useful-field-of-view and stop-signal tasks. Thus, while the risk taking data did not fit any of the cognitive domains investigated here, the UFOV and stop-signal data could still be included; these data were not available in the paper and were obtained from the thesis of Benoit Bediou (Bailey, 2012).…”

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Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills.

Bediou

Adams

Mayer

et al. 2018

Psychological Bulletin

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The ubiquity of video games in today's society has led to significant interest in their impact on the brain and behavior and in the possibility of harnessing games for good. The present meta-analyses focus on one specific game genre that has been of particular interest to the scientific community-action video games, and cover the period 2000-2015. To assess the long-lasting impact of action video game play on various domains of cognition, we first consider cross-sectional studies that inform us about the cognitive profile of habitual action video game players, and document a positive average effect of about half a standard deviation (g = 0.55). We then turn to long-term intervention studies that inform us about the possibility of causally inducing changes in cognition via playing action video games, and show a smaller average effect of a third of a standard deviation (g = 0.34). Because only intervention studies using other commercially available video game genres as controls were included, this latter result highlights the fact that not all games equally impact cognition. Moderator analyses indicated that action video game play robustly enhances the domains of top-down attention and spatial cognition, with encouraging signs for perception. Publication bias remains, however, a threat with average effects in the published literature estimated to be 30% larger than in the full literature. As a result, we encourage the field to conduct larger cohort studies and more intervention studies, especially those with more than 30 hours of training. (PsycINFO Database Record

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confidence: 99%

Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills.

Bediou

Adams

Mayer

et al. 2018

Psychological Bulletin

564

502

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Transient and sustained ERP activity related to feedback processing in the probabilistic selection task

West

Bailey

Anderson

2018

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Video game training does not enhance cognitive ability: A comprehensive meta-analytic investigation.

Sala

Tatlidil

Gobet

2018

Psychological Bulletin

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As a result of considerable potential scientific and societal implications, the possibility of enhancing cognitive ability by training has been one of the most influential topics of cognitive psychology in the last two decades. However, substantial research into the psychology of expertise and a recent series of meta-analytic reviews have suggested that various types of cognitive training (e.g., working memory training) benefit performance only in the trained tasks. The lack of skill generalization from one domain to different ones-that is, far transfer-has been documented in various fields of research such as working memory training, music, brain training, and chess. Video game training is another activity that has been claimed by many researchers to foster a broad range of cognitive abilities such as visual processing, attention, spatial ability, and cognitive control. We tested these claims with three random-effects meta-analytic models. The first meta-analysis (k = 310) examined the correlation between video game skill and cognitive ability. The second meta-analysis (k = 315) dealt with the differences between video game players and nonplayers in cognitive ability. The third meta-analysis (k = 359) investigated the effects of video game training on participants' cognitive ability. Small or null overall effect sizes were found in all three models. These outcomes show that overall cognitive ability and video game skill are only weakly related. Importantly, we found no evidence of a causal relationship between playing video games and enhanced cognitive ability. Video game training thus represents no exception to the general difficulty of obtaining far transfer. (PsycINFO Database Record

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What would my avatar do? Video games and risky decision making

Cited by 3 publications

References 145 publications

Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills.

Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills.

Transient and sustained ERP activity related to feedback processing in the probabilistic selection task

Video game training does not enhance cognitive ability: A comprehensive meta-analytic investigation.

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