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Nature Neuroscience 12, 527 - 528 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0509-527
Carrot sticks or joysticks: video games improve vision
Gideon P Caplovitz1 & Sabine Kastner1
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The authors are in the Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. e-mail: gcaplovi@princeton.edu
e-mail: skastner@princeton.edu
Abstract
Playing action-based video games has been shown to improve attentional processing. A study now finds that it also induces long-lasting improvements in contrast sensitivity, a basic visual function that commonly deteriorates with age. These improvements do not happen for an equivalent group who played a non-action video game.
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Enhancing the contrast sensitivity function through action video game trainingNature Neuroscience Brief Communication (01 May 2009)
