Carrot sticks or joysticks: Video games improve vision

Gideon P. Caplovitz; Sabine Kastner

doi:10.1038/nn0509-527

Carrot sticks or joysticks: Video games improve vision

Gideon P. Caplovitz, Sabine Kastner

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	527-528
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature neuroscience
Volume	12
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0509-527
State	Published - May 2009

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General Neuroscience

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