VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Attention, Memory and Information Processing Advantages to Gaming

Update: 2012-01-16

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In this show we’ll be talking about various perceptual and cognitive advantages to gaming. Dr. Walter Boot is the director of the Attention and Training laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University. In his lab they have tested expert video game players versus newbie’s on a variety of attentional, memory and information processing tasks. This included training on a specific game which is important from a methodological point when trying to discover if gaming improves attention. You’ll learn about the advantages and disadvantages to such lifelong attentional training by playing video games. This includes military and safety applications. In addition you’ll learn how gaming may be able to slow the cognitive aging decline.

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Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Racial representation and gaming

2013-04-1523:23

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Violence and Video Game Play Revisited

2013-03-1120:48

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Family Life and Video Game Play

2013-02-1121:20

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Problem Video Game Play and Genre

2013-01-1338:07

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video Games Let You Be All You Can Be

2012-12-1730:24

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – What is a gamer identity or gamer culture?

2012-11-1927:19

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video game technology supporting the elderly

2012-10-1530:20

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Women in Gaming

2012-09-1628:46

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Culture-jamming activists in video games

2012-08-1326:01

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – A senior artists view of computers

2012-07-1620:10

Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? – Transitioning between real and virtual

2012-06-1826:16

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Consciousness and the Avatar

2012-05-2826:58

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Visual Arts and Gaming

2012-04-1625:25

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Music and Video Games

2012-04-0225:15

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Self-discovery with Mindbloom

2012-03-1924:38

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Casual Games for Improved Thinking in the Elderly

2012-03-0524:46

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Hello Avatar Author Interviewed

2012-02-1328:11

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Games for Health Journal Founded

2012-01-3000:01

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Attention, Memory and Information Processing Advantages to Gaming

2012-01-1623:03

VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Military and Gaming

2012-01-0226:46

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VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Attention, Memory and Information Processing Advantages to Gaming

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VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Attention, Memory and Information Processing Advantages to Gaming