They found marked decreases in
proactive cognitive control among the action game players versus the Sims players or non-game players.
In three new, unpublished studies, Anderson and colleagues found that playing action video games is associated with better visuospatial attention skills, but also with reduced
proactive cognitive control.
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Proactive cognitive control involves keeping information active in short - term memory for use in later judgments, a kind of task preparation,» Anderson explains.
Not exact matches
Two types of
cognitive control processes play a large role:
proactive and reactive.