Action video game experience affects the inhibition of return in discrimination task

Author

Lu, Xiuling ; Sun, Xianghong ; Zhang, Kan

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Brain & Cognitive Sci., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

6-8 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

637

Lastpage

641

Abstract

Numerous studies have shown that action video game players (VGPs) differ from non-video game players (NVGPs) in various cognitive tasks. However, it has not been suggested that greater inhibitory efficiency may play a role in creating these differences. Previous experiments tried to investigate this issue. They found that no significant inhibition of return (IOR) difference between VGPs and NVGPs when using the easier detection task. This experiment tested the hypothesis that VGPs show a different IOR in the more difficult discrimination task. When we used the discrimination task, we found significant IOR difference between VGPs and NVGPs.

Keywords

cognitive systems; computer games; IOR; action video game players; cognitive tasks; discrimination task; inhibition of return; nonvideo game players; Chaos; Cognitive science; Costs; Games; Laboratories; Object detection; Psychology; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Testing; action video game; discrimination task; inhibition of return (IOR); video game player (VGP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Infrastructure and Digital Content, 2009. IC-NIDC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4898-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4900-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNIDC.2009.5360835

Filename

5360835