The possibility of leveraging video games for enhancing behavior and brain function has led to an emerging new field situated at the crossroads of cognitive neuroscience, health …
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 …
In 2014, two groups of scientists published open letters on the efficacy of brain-training interventions, or “brain games,” for improving cognition. The first letter, a consensus …
Background: Although several excellent reviews and meta-analyses have investigated the effect of video game trainings as tools to enhance well-being, most of them specifically …
The role of digital technology in shaping attention and cognitive development has been at the centre of public discourse for decades. The current review presents findings from three …
Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties in learning to read and there is some evidence that action video games (AVG), without any direct phonological or orthographic stimulation …
A growing body of literature has investigated the effects of playing video games on brain function and behavior. One key takeaway from this literature has been that not all …
CS Green, D Bavelier - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Action video game play improves performance on a variety of tasks.•Benefits have been found in perceptual, attentional and cognitive tasks.•A possible mechanistic …
Reading acquisition is extremely difficult for about 5% of children because they are affected by a heritable neurobiological disorder called developmental dyslexia (DD). Intervention …