Examination of mechanisms underlying enhanced memory performance in action video
game players: a pilot study
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Li X
; Cheng X
; Li J
; Pan Y
; Hu Y
; Ku Y
Front Psychol
2015[]; 6
(?): 843
PMID26136720
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Previous studies have shown enhanced memory performance resulting from extensive
action video game playing. The mechanisms underlying the cognitive benefit were
investigated in the current study. We presented two types of retro-cues, with
variable intervals to memory array (Task 1) or test array (Task 2), during the
retention interval in a change detection task. In Task 1, action video game
players demonstrated steady performance while non-action video game players
showed decreased performance as cues occurred later, indicating their performance
difference increased as the cue-to-memory-array intervals became longer. In Task
2, both participant groups increased their performance at similar rates as cues
presented later, implying the performance difference in two groups were
irrespective of the test-array-to-cue intervals. These findings suggested that
memory benefit from game plays is not attributable to the higher ability of
overcoming interference from the test array, but to the interactions between the
two processes of protection from decay and resistance from interference, or from
alternative hypotheses. Implications for future studies were discussed.
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