Cognitive enhancement in video game players: The role of video game genre

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Highlights：

• We compare first-person shooter and real-time strategy video game players.

• Action video games provide differential benefits to cognition depending on genre.

• Real-time strategy players show superior performance on multiple object tracking.

• Game mechanics may determine occurrence of specific cognitive enhancements.

摘要

•We compare first-person shooter and real-time strategy video game players.•Action video games provide differential benefits to cognition depending on genre.•Real-time strategy players show superior performance on multiple object tracking.•Game mechanics may determine occurrence of specific cognitive enhancements.

论文关键词：Cognitive functions,Video games,Executive functions,Visual attention,Task switching,Multiple object tracking

论文评审过程：Available online 4 December 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.051