Publications by authors named "Adam C Oei"
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- Action video games are shown to improve perceptual and cognitive skills, but the reasons for this transfer of skills are not fully understood.
- Participants in the study played four different action games with varying levels of speed, visual, and attentional challenges over 20 hours.
- Those who played the game with the highest demands, "Modern Combat," improved more notably on tasks involving attentional blink and managing multiple items, supporting the idea that transfer of skills is linked to the specific demands of the games played.
Many recent studies using healthy adults document enhancements in perception and cognition from playing commercial action videogames (AVGs). Playing action games (e.g.
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- A study was conducted to examine whether playing non-action video games could also enhance cognitive abilities, comparing them to action games.
- Five groups of non-gamer participants played different types of games for 20 hours and then completed various cognitive tasks to measure improvements.
- Results showed that action games improved attentional blink and cognitive control, while non-action games like match-3 and hidden object games enhanced visual search and spatial working memory, suggesting that different games improve specific cognitive skills.