Visual short-term memory for coherent motion in video game players: evidence from a memory-masking paradigm.

ABSTRACT: In this study, we investigated visual short-term memory for coherent motion in action video game players (AVGPs), non-action video game players (NAVGPs), and non-gamers (control group: CONs). Participants performed a visual memory-masking paradigm previously used with macaque monkeys and humans. In particular, we tested whether video game players form a more robust visual short-term memory trace for coherent moving stimuli during the encoding phase, and whether such memory traces are less affected by an intervening masking stimulus presented 0.2 s after the offset of the to-be-remembered sample. The results showed that task performance of all groups was affected by the masking stimulus, but video game players were affected to a lesser extent than controls. Modelling of performance values a

SUBMITTER: Pavan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6465596 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature