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Libertus, Melissa E.; Liu, Allison; Pikul, Olga; Jacques, Theodore; Cardoso-Leite, Pedro; Halberda, Justin; Bavelier, Daphne – AERA Open, 2017
Playing action video games has previously been linked to improvements in attentional control, the ability to choose what to attend and what to ignore that relies on a frontoparietal network of the brain. Here we asked whether action video game training would impact a range of mathematical abilities that rely on similar brain regions. Twenty-four…
Descriptors: Video Games, Adults, Teaching Methods, Attention
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Miyahara, Motohide; Ruffman, Ted; Fujita, Chikako; Tsujii, Masatsugu – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2010
The abilities to identify threat and learn about affect in facial photographs were compared between a non-autistic university student group (NUS), a matched Asperger's group (MAS) on the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), and an unmatched Asperger's group (UAS) who scored lower on the SPM. Participants were given pairs of faces and asked which…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Affective Behavior, Pictorial Stimuli, Comparative Analysis