Playing Minecraft Improves Hippocampal-Associated Memory for Details in Middle Aged Adults.
Playing Minecraft Improves Hippocampal-Associated Memory for Details in Middle Aged Adults.
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DOI：
10.3389/fspor.2021.685286
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Stark SM
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作者：
Stark CEL;Clemenson GD;Aluru U;Hatamian N;Stark SM
人们经常担心玩电子游戏可能对认知和行为产生的影响，无论是像竞技电子竞技那样激烈和持久的游戏还是更休闲的游戏。然而，我们实验室和其他人的工作表明，至少某些类别的游戏可以改善记忆功能。特别是，玩沉浸式3D游戏，提供丰富的经验和新奇性，提高记忆的任务，依赖于海马体的效果，反映了“环境丰富”的影响，在许多啮齿动物的研究。我们在本研究中的目标是确定即使是适度的游戏（约30分钟/天，持续4周）是否会导致中年人的记忆表现改善。这一人群不仅可能高度接受游戏（他们占电子竞技观众和游戏玩家的很大一部分），而且中年干预可能是减少与年龄相关的认知能力下降的黄金时期。在这里，我们发现，中年人的好处取代了以前在年轻人中观察到的玩Minecraft的效果，显示了海马依赖记忆任务的记忆性能改善。
Concerns are often raised about the impact that playing video games may have on cognition and behavior, whether gameplay is intense and protracted as with competitive Esports or whether it is more casual gameplay. Work in our lab and others, however, has shown that at least some classes of games can improve memory function. In particular, playing immersive 3D games that provide rich experiences and novelty improve memory on tasks that rely upon the hippocampus in effects that mirror the effects of “environmental enrichment” in numerous rodent studies. Our goal in the present study was to determine whether even modest amounts of gameplay (~30 min/day for 4 weeks) would result in improved memory performance in middle-aged adults. Not only is this demographic potentially highly receptive to gaming (they make up a significant portion of Esports viewers and of game players), but interventions in middle age may be a prime time for reducing later age-related cognitive decline. Here, we found that the benefits in middle age paralleled effects previously observed in young adults as playing Minecraft, showing improved memory performance on a hippocampal dependent memory task.
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