Pavan, Andrea and Hobaek, Martine and Blurton, Steven P. and Contillo, Adriano and Ghin, Filippo and Greenlee, Markw (2019) Visual short-term memory for coherent motion in video game players: evidence from a memory-masking paradigm. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 9: 6027. ISSN 2045-2322,
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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 and reaction times revealed that video game players have a lower guessing rate than CONs, and higher drift rates than CONs, indicative of more efficient perceptual decisions. These results suggest that video game players exhibit a more robust VSTM trace for moving objects and this trace is less prone to external interference.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | WORKING-MEMORY; ATTENTIONAL CONTROL; DIFFUSION-MODEL; REACTION-TIMES; GLOBAL MOTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; BINDING; SPEED; INFORMATION; VARIABILITY; |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I (Allgemeine Psychologie I und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2020 07:10 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Apr 2020 07:10 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/27167 |
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