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Pilot Study: The Effects Of Video Gaming On Visual Orienting and Vigilance

  • Student(s): Melissa J. Jenks
  • Advisor: Raymond D. Collings
  • Department: Psychology Department

The current study piloted an intensive video gaming intervention designed to improve visual orienting and vigilance with a normative sample of seven undergraduates.  Pretest/posttest differences in VOT performance revealed that the 6-week intervention's effects on both measures of attention were found to be large (albeit non-significant). These findings suggest that such an intervention might benefit some individuals with ADHD, and they provide a basis for a proposed clinical trial study examining this issue.

URL: http://www.kon.org/urc/v6/jenks.html


Citation

Jenks, M. J., LeTarte, K., & Collings, R. D. (2006). Pilot Study: The Effects of Video Gaming On Visual Orienting and Vigilance. Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences, 6

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