In about a week, I’ll be doing my GRE and I have been delaying some readings to prepare myself, although I don’t feel that I would be ready by the appointed time. Well, here goes +200$ down the drain.
Gamepolitics reported a study from Iowa State University. Kira Bailey (grad student) and Robert West (faculty advisor) [...]
Archive for the ‘Cognitive Psychology’ Category
Short-term effects of playing video games on attention (Tahiroglu et al., in press)
Posted in Abnormal psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Video games on October 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A flash game to measure multitasking skills
Posted in Cognitive Psychology on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This image shows this guy in a train simultaneously listening to music, texting on his cell and playing on his DS. Thanks to Kotaku for posting this funny image a while ago.
This popped in my inbox via google alert. The New York Times created a game with help from psychology professors David Strayer and David E. Meyer.
The [...]
Time perception during video game play by adolescents (Tobin & Grodin, 2009)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Video games on July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So far I’ve managed to contact four potential advisors who are willing to take in a grad student. I still got three more to find, but it’s a daunting task, going through the research literature, combing the faculty lists and googling around. What I discovered that there are more video game researchers from communications studies [...]
Emotional memory in violent video game players and non-players (Bowen & Spaniol, 2009)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, Video games on June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post is what I picked up at the 2009 CPA convention in Montreal.
My first CPA convention was rather less than exciting, the subjects there are very broad and I guess I would have been more excited if I were in a topic-specific conference. Nevertheless and statistically speaking, you will at least find a subject that [...]
Video games and individuals’ threat simulation dreams (Gackenbach & Kuruvilla, 2008)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Video games on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ll tell it straight: I am not a big fan of dreams, the science behind it or know about dreams beyond what I’ve been taught in introductory psychology. I’ll just it post here to say that even dream researchers have thought of looking at video games. No I haven’t read the article (just the abstract) [...]
Using Tetris as a potential treatment for PTSD (Holmes et al., 2009)
Posted in Abnormal psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Video games on January 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Originally picked this article up from BPS Research Digest Blog, then news spread through mainstream and blogging news. So, gamepolitics.com, BBC News, even my own homeplace’s newspaper picked up via Reuters. This study is about the use of Tetris in preventing PTSD, specifically preventing traumatic memories from forming in long-term memory.
Abstract
Background
Flashbacks are the hallmark symptom [...]
Violent vs. non-violent video games’ improvement on cognitive performance (Barlett et al., 2009)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Video games on January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Since my last post, I’ve been feeling lethargic. Trying to find out the cause(s), I underwent through introspection. At first, it might’ve been I was eagerly waiting for the first episode of Minami-ke: Okaeri, which distracted me from what I wanted to do. Then it might’ve been the annoying peccadilloes from my laptop, my procrastination [...]
Lighting in video games affect play maze performance (Knez & Niedenthal, 2008)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Video games on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yahtzee often complained about the current video games’ use of “realism” colours which are basically shades of grey and brown. This may be based on artistic taste, but this could relate to psychology when considering lighting in our environment, whether it’s in the real world or in the virtual world. It may seem trivial at [...]
Variations in time schedule and video games affect mental rotation performance (Cherney, 2008)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Video games on December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For some unknown reasons, recently published journal articles that I am interested aren’t showing up in the databases or on the journal’s directory. One is from Psychology and Aging from Basak et al.’s study and another from the Journal of Psychiatric Research from the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Center’s latest study. I tend to [...]
Training in real-time strategy games in older adults (Basak et al., 2008)
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Video games on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To follow up my previous post, another study published by the same lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used the same experimental paradigm in assessing video games effect on cognitive abilities, but this time with elderly people. This study was widely publicized in many news media. This study is published in the journal [...]
