Action video gaming and cognitive control: playing first person shooter games is associated with improvement in working memory but not action inhibition

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Psychological Research

• Publication date

  2012-01-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/s00426-012-0415-2PMID 22270615
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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