Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players
Enhanced change detection performance reveals improved strategy use in avid action video game players
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DOI：
10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.10.003
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
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1.8
通讯作者：
Mitroff, Stephen R.
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作者：
Clark, Kait;Fleck, Mathias S.;Mitroff, Stephen R.
最近的研究表明，狂热的动作视频游戏玩家(VGP)在各种注意力和知觉任务上比非视频游戏玩家(NVGP)表现更好。然而，这种差异的确切原因和方式仍不清楚；虽然先前的一些研究表明，VGP的改善源于增强的基本知觉过程，但其他研究表明，它们可能源于加强的注意控制。目前的实验使用了变化检测任务来探索自上而下的策略是否有助于VGP能力的提高。参与者观看了图像和图像的修改版本的交替呈现，并被要求检测和定位与先前声称的感知能力增强一致的变化元素，VGP能够检测到变化，同时需要比NVGP对变化的暴露更少。进一步的分析表明，这种改进的变化检测性能可能是由于改变了策略使用；VGP在扫描场景以寻找潜在变化时使用了更广泛的搜索模式。这些结果通过提供VGP潜在的增强的自上而下的战略利益的新证据，补充了先前关于VGP增强的自下而上的感知益处的演示。(C)2010爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
Recent research has shown that avid action video game players (VGPs) outperform non-video game players (NVGPs) on a variety of attentional and perceptual tasks. However, it remains unknown exactly why and how such differences arise; while some prior research has demonstrated that VGPs' improvements stem from enhanced basic perceptual processes, other work indicates that they can stem from enhanced attentional control. The current experiment used a change-detection task to explore whether top-down strategies can contribute to VGPs' improved abilities. Participants viewed alternating presentations of an image and a modified version of the image and were tasked with detecting and localizing the changed element Consistent with prior claims of enhanced perceptual abilities, VGPs were able to detect the changes while requiring less exposure to the change than NVGPs. Further analyses revealed this improved change detection performance may result from altered strategy use; VGPs employed broader search patterns when scanning scenes for potential changes. These results complement prior demonstrations of VGPs' enhanced bottom-up perceptual benefits by providing new evidence of VGPs' potentially enhanced top-down strategic benefits. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.