Donohue Sarah E, Woldorff Marty G, Mitroff Stephen R
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0999, USA.
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2010 May;72(4):1120-9. doi: 10.3758/APP.72.4.1120.
Recent research has demonstrated enhanced visual attention and visual perception in individuals with extensive experience playing action video games. These benefits manifest in several realms, but much remains unknown about the ways in which video game experience alters perception and cognition. In the present study, we examined whether video game players' benefits generalize beyond vision to multisensory processing by presenting auditory and visual stimuli within a short temporal window to video game players and non-video game players. Participants performed two discrimination tasks, both of which revealed benefits for video game players: In a simultaneity judgment task, video game players were better able to distinguish whether simple visual and auditory stimuli occurred at the same moment or slightly offset in time, and in a temporal-order judgment task, they revealed an enhanced ability to determine the temporal sequence of multisensory stimuli. These results suggest that people with extensive experience playing video games display benefits that extend beyond the visual modality to also impact multisensory processing.
最近的研究表明，有丰富动作类电子游戏经验的个体视觉注意力和视觉感知能力有所增强。这些益处体现在多个领域，但关于电子游戏体验如何改变感知和认知，仍有许多未知之处。在本研究中，我们通过在短时间窗口内向电子游戏玩家和非电子游戏玩家呈现听觉和视觉刺激，来检验电子游戏玩家的优势是否能从视觉推广到多感官处理。参与者完成了两项辨别任务，两项任务均显示出电子游戏玩家的优势：在同步性判断任务中，电子游戏玩家更能区分简单的视觉和听觉刺激是同时出现还是在时间上稍有偏移；在时间顺序判断任务中，他们表现出更强的能力来确定多感官刺激的时间顺序。这些结果表明，有丰富电子游戏经验的人所展现出的优势不仅限于视觉模态，还会影响多感官处理。
