电子游戏训练对认知能力的影响.pdfVIP

Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2014, 4, 515-522 Published Online July 2014 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2014.44070 The Influence of Video Game Training on Cognitive Abilities Xi Zhou Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing Email: zhou-x10@ th th nd Received: May 13 , 2014; revised: May 19 , 2014; accepted: May 22 , 2014 Copyright © 2014 by author and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Video games have been very popular in the last few decades, but their negative effects have re- ceived most of the attention, such as that playing violent video games may increase players’ ag- gressive behaviors in daily life. Recently, some studies have shown that video games also have positive influence on players’ cognitive abilities, including sensation, perception, attention, space cognition and so on; whereas other studies have suggested that video games do not significantly improve players’ cognitive abilities. This discrepancy might be due to confounding of independent variables. On the other hand, video game training has been developed to take advantage of the positive influence of video games to maximally improve player’s cognitive abilities. So far a few studies have shown that video game training has great influence on people’s attention and spatial abilities. Video game training has been applied in education, military, medical trainings and daily life. However, cautions should be taken to apply video game training to