Running head: COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND VIDEO GAME PLAY
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21 Training in action video games can increase the speed of perceptual processing. However, it is 22 unknown whether video-game training can lead to broad-based changes in higher-level 23 competencies such as cognitive flexibility, a core and neurally distributed component of 24 cognition. To determine whether video gaming can enhance cognitive flexibility and, if so, why 25 these changes occur, the current study compares two versions of a real-time strategy (RTS) 26 game. Using a meta-analytic Bayes factor approach, we found that the gaming condition that 27 emphasized maintenance and rapid switching between multiple information and action sources 28 led to a large increase in cognitive flexibility as measured by a wide array of non-video gaming 29 tasks. Theoretically, the results suggest that the distributed brain networks supporting cognitive 30 flexibility can be tuned by engrossing video game experience that stresses maintenance and rapid 31 manipulation of multiple information sources. Practically, these results suggest avenues for 32 increasing cognitive function. 33
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