Technology consumption and cognitive control: Contrasting action video game experience with media multitasking
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Technology consumption and cognitive control: Contrasting action video game experience with media multitasking.
Technology has the potential to impact cognition in many ways. Here we contrast two forms of technology usage: (1) media multitasking (i.e., the simultaneous consumption of multiple streams of media, such a texting while watching TV) and (2) playing action video games (a particular subtype of video games). Previous work has outlined an association between high levels of media multitasking and s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1943-3921,1943-393X
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-0988-0