Video gaming and working memory: a large-scale cross-sectional correlative study.

ABSTRACT: Studies have indicated that video gaming is positively associated with cognitive performance in select cognitive domains, but the magnitudes of these associations have been called into question, as they have frequently been based on extreme groups analyses that have compared video gamers with non-gamers. When including the whole range of participants, and not just extreme cases, these effects were observed to reduce markedly (Unsworth et al., 2015). To further study this issue, we compared the associations between video gaming and aspects of working memory (WM) performance in an extreme groups design to those of a design that includes the full range of participants in a large adult sample (n = 503). WM was measured with three composite scores (verbal WM, visuospatial WM, n-back). The extre

SUBMITTER: Waris O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6707529 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature