Enhanced disengagement of auditory attention and phonological skills in action video gamers
| Autor: | M. Mancarella, A. Antzaka, S. Bertoni, A. Facoetti, M. Lallier |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Human-Computer Interaction
Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia Generale Experience-based neuroplasticity Spatial attention Fronto-parietal attention networks Stimulus-driven auditory attention Phonological working memory Settore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia e Psicologia Fisiologica Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación instname |
| ISSN: | 2015-0490 |
| Popis: | Available online 3 June 2022 Video games play a major role in the everyday life of children, teenagers, and adults. Several studies show that action video games (AVGs) improve visual attentional efficiency. AVGs also appear to improve reading speed and phonological skills in children with developmental dyslexia. These results have been linked to the intrinsic characteristics of AVGs, in which fast disengagement of multisensory attention allows for efficient extraction of relevant dynamic information, a skill that is crucially also involved in phonological and reading skills. We tested the hypothesis that AVG players demonstrate faster auditory attention disengagement in an auditory spatial cuing task, as well as better phonological and reading performance than non-players. We found that AVG players were faster in spatial localization of auditory targets and showed enhanced attentional disengagement as indexed by a smaller cuing effect. AVG players also showed better phonological decoding and working memory skills. Moreover, the beneficial effects of AVGs, as measured by faster attentional disengagement, were linked to better phonological and reading skills in adult AVG players. We suggest that a more efficient attentional disengagement - controlled by the posterior parietal cortex - induces enhanced multisensory processing in AVG players. This research is supported by the Basque Government through the BERC 2018–2021 program and by the Spanish State Research Agency through BCBL’s Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2015-0490. The authors acknowledge financial support from the Basque Government (PRE 2017 2 0049 to A.A; PIBA18-29 to M.L.) and the Spanish Government (RTI2018-096242-B-I00 and RYC-2015-17356 to M.L.). M. M was supported in part by an Erasmus+ for Traineeship scholarship from the European community (during the time of the research) and by a doctoral fellowship (FWO grant number: 1112021N) from Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO), S.B. was supported by grants from the CARIPARO Foundation (Borse di Dottorato CARIPARO 2015), Progetto MIUR Dipartimenti di Eccellenza (DM 11/05/2017 n. 262) “Use- Inspired Basic Research - Un modello innovativo per la ricerca e la formazione in psicologia”CUP: C96C18000450005, and Ateneo Research Project STaRs (Supporting Talented Researchers) year 2020 CUP: F54I19000980001. |
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