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Increasing Speed of Processing With Action Video Games
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In many everyday situations, speed is of the essence. However, fast decisions typically mean more mistakes. To this day, it remains unknown whether reaction times can be reduced with appropriate training, within one individual, across a range of tasks, and without compromising accuracy. Here we review evidence that the very act of playing action video games significantly reduces reaction times without sacrificing accuracy. Critically, this increase in speed is observed across various tasks beyond game situations. Video gaming may therefore provide an efficient training regimen to induce a general speeding of perceptual reaction times without decreases in accuracy of performance.
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“In support of this, previous research on commercial video-game playing revealed pronounced benefits on processing speed (e.g., Dye et al., 2009).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dye, M. W. G., Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Department of Social and Legal Psychology, University of Bonn
- Venue
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-12
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 321-326
- ISSN
- 0963-7214 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8721
- PMC
- PMC2871325
- OpenAlex
- W2121382662
- Cited by
- 521
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 37 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 42 · 2014: 35 · 2013: 49 · 2012: 32
- FWCI
- 28.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Current Directions in Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
- Office of Naval Research
- National Eye Institute (R01EY016880)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Games and Media
- Keywords
- action video games, reaction time, perceptual speed, speed-accuracy trade-off, video game training, transfer of training, decision-making, cognitive training
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