1. Daphne Bavelier, C. Shawn Green, Alexandre Pouget and Paul Schrater
Brain Plasticity Through the Life Span: Learning to Learn and Action Video Games
Daphne Bavelier, C. Shawn Green, Alexandre Pouget and Paul Schrater
Rishav Raj Agarwal Arpit Agarwal

2. Benefits of Action Game
Really?

3. Vision Action videogame play enhances Crowding acuity
spatial resolution
temporal resolution
sensitivity.
Crowding acuity

4. Cognitive Functions Benefits social cognition
Enhanced task-switching abilities
Enhance mental rotation abilities

5. Decision Making Speeds up reaction time
Young laparoscopic surgeons who are gamers outperform more seasoned surgeons
Game play does not result in trading speed for accuracy

6. Causality Hawthorne effect
Effects of action video game play are causal or are instead reflective of population bias

7. Learning to Learn

8. Resources
All tasks require subjects to make a decision based on a limited amount of noisy data
Enhanced resources: Benefit from greater attentional resources
Divided attention: The ability to divide attention between tasks or locations
Sustained attention and impulsivity.
Flexible resourse allocation

9. Learning Rule
Action game play leads to more accurate probabilistic inference
Action game playing may act by enabling more generalizable knowledge through various abstractions
VGPs show greater suppression of distractors under extremely high load conditions
Development of more generalizable knowledge as one is faced with new tasks or new environments.

10. Conclusion

11. Action game play does not teach any one particular skill
Increases the ability to extract patterns or regularities in the environment
Learning to learn
Changes in knowledge produce benefits only to the extent to which new tasks share structure with action video games.

12. References

13. Bavelier D, Achtman RA, Mani M, Foecker J. 2011
Bavelier D, Achtman RA, Mani M, Foecker J Neural bases of selective attention in action video game players. Vis. Res. doi: /j.visres
Bavelier D, Levi DM, Li RW, Dan Y, Hensch TK Removing brakes on adult brain plasticity: from molecular to behavioral interventions. J. Neurosci. 30:14964–71

14. Thank You Questions?