Technology consumption and cognitive control: Contrasting action video game experience with media multitasking

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

• Publication date

  2015-10-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.3758/s13414-015-0988-0PMID 26474982PMCID PMC4834063
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