The effects of an early intervention on adults' gaming-related problems - a pilot study.

Gaming Disorder (GD) has been recognized as an official psychiatric condition characterized by individuals' impaired control over gaming, continuous gaming despite the occurrence of negative side-effects, and gaming taking increasing priority over other important areas of life, thus leading to significant impairments in their everyday lives. To date few prevention and treatment programs have been developed. The present pilot study aimed to investigate the effects of an early psycho-educational intervention for young adults with excessive gaming behaviors.

Risk Factors for Excessive Social Media Use Differ from Those of Gambling and Gaming in Finnish Youth.

Purpose: Adolescents' excessive social media use has characteristics similar to other addictive behaviours. This study aims to explore whether the same risk factors are associated with excessive social media use as with excessive gaming and gambling among Finnish adolescents.

Methods: Multinomial logistic regression analyses were carried out using the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs data, collected from Finnish adolescents aged 15-16 in 2019 ( = 4595).

Upper nasal hemifield location and nonspatial auditory tones accelerate visual detection during dichoptic viewing.

Visual performance is asymmetric across the visual field, but locational biases that occur during dichoptic viewing are not well understood. In this study, we characterized horizontal, vertical and naso-temporal biases in visual target detection during dichoptic stimulation and explored whether the detection was facilitated by non-spatial auditory tones associated with the target's location. The detection time for single monocular targets that were suppressed from view with a 10 Hz dynamic noise mask presented to the other eye was measured at the 4° intercardinal location of each eye with the breaking Continuous Flash Suppression (b-CFS) technique.

CFS MATLAB toolbox: An experiment builder for continuous flash suppression (CFS) task.

CFS toolbox is an open-source collection of MATLAB functions that utilizes PsychToolbox-3 (PTB-3). It is designed to allow a researcher to create and run continuous flash suppression experiments using a variety of experimental parameters (i.e.

Visual Performance With Small Concave and Convex Displays.

Objective: In this study, we aim to investigate how users' visual performance with a small flexible display changes based on the direction (i.e., convex, concave) and the magnitude (i.

Visual task performance using a monocular see-through head-mounted display (HMD) while walking.

A monocular see-through head-mounted display (HMD) allows the user to view displayed information while simultaneously interacting with the surrounding environment. This configuration lets people use HMDs while they are moving, such as while walking. However, sharing attention between the display and environment can compromise a person's performance in any ongoing task, and controlling one's gait may add further challenges.

Mapping the identity of a viewed hand in the motor system: evidence from stimulus-response compatibility.

Brain-imaging research has shown that a viewed acting hand is mapped to the observer's hand representation that corresponds with the identity of the hand. In contrast, behavioral research has suggested that rather than representing a seen hand in relation to one's own manual system, it is represented in relation to the midline of an imaginary body. This view was drawn from the finding that indicated that the posture of the viewed hand determines how the hand facilitates responses.