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Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults
Many studies have shown that “action” videogames (VG) training can improve various cognitive aspects (such as attention, enumeration skill, problem solving, vigilance, inhibitory control and decision making). Unfortunately, independently by VG genre, little research has been conducted on the relevan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36231382 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912081 |
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author | Peracchia, Sara D’Aurizio, Giulia Curcio, Giuseppe |
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description | Many studies have shown that “action” videogames (VG) training can improve various cognitive aspects (such as attention, enumeration skill, problem solving, vigilance, inhibitory control and decision making). Unfortunately, independently by VG genre, little research has been conducted on the relevance of videogaming frequency to modulate cognitive performance. In the present study, we investigated the differences between two groups of young adults (Experienced Gamers and Casual Gamers, respectively, EGs and CGs) in some attentional and executive abilities. To this end, 19 EGs (age 23.21 ± 1.68 years; gaming frequency 46.42 ± 11.15 h/week) and 19 CGs (age 23.10 ± 2.28 years; gaming frequency 1.31 ± 1.76 h/week) were selected and asked to complete a computer-based and customized version of an executive battery (i.e., Attention Network Task, Game of Dice task, Go/NoGo task and Task Switching). The results showed better basic attentional abilities and alertness level (i.e., as indicated by faster reaction times (RTs) and greater accuracy) in EGs compared to CGs. Moreover, EGs showed a more efficient decision making than CGs, particularly evident in risky decisions. Taken together, such results show that an executive functioning improvement can be observed as a consequence of continuous and constant exposure to VG, independently by the specific genre played. These data can be a useful starting point to develop new and innovative executive training protocols, based and inspired to videogames to be applied in clinical populations suffering, for example, from dysexecutive impairment. |
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spelling | pubmed-95660572022-10-15 Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults Peracchia, Sara D’Aurizio, Giulia Curcio, Giuseppe Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Many studies have shown that “action” videogames (VG) training can improve various cognitive aspects (such as attention, enumeration skill, problem solving, vigilance, inhibitory control and decision making). Unfortunately, independently by VG genre, little research has been conducted on the relevance of videogaming frequency to modulate cognitive performance. In the present study, we investigated the differences between two groups of young adults (Experienced Gamers and Casual Gamers, respectively, EGs and CGs) in some attentional and executive abilities. To this end, 19 EGs (age 23.21 ± 1.68 years; gaming frequency 46.42 ± 11.15 h/week) and 19 CGs (age 23.10 ± 2.28 years; gaming frequency 1.31 ± 1.76 h/week) were selected and asked to complete a computer-based and customized version of an executive battery (i.e., Attention Network Task, Game of Dice task, Go/NoGo task and Task Switching). The results showed better basic attentional abilities and alertness level (i.e., as indicated by faster reaction times (RTs) and greater accuracy) in EGs compared to CGs. Moreover, EGs showed a more efficient decision making than CGs, particularly evident in risky decisions. Taken together, such results show that an executive functioning improvement can be observed as a consequence of continuous and constant exposure to VG, independently by the specific genre played. These data can be a useful starting point to develop new and innovative executive training protocols, based and inspired to videogames to be applied in clinical populations suffering, for example, from dysexecutive impairment. MDPI 2022-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9566057/ /pubmed/36231382 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912081 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Peracchia, Sara D’Aurizio, Giulia Curcio, Giuseppe Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults |
title | Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults |
title_full | Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults |
title_fullStr | Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults |
title_short | Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults |
title_sort | videogaming frequency and executive skills in young adults |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9566057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36231382 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912081 |
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