Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Still No Evidence That Video-Game Experience Is Related to Cognitive Abilities—A Reply to Green et al. (2017)

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Michael J. Kane, Professor (Creator)
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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Abstract: Green et al. (2017) raise two broad concerns with our two studies (Unsworth et al., 2015) showing little association between self-reported video-game experience and cognitive abilities: (a) Our analyses assumed linear gaming-cognition relationships and ignored possible confounding associations among different video-game genres, and (b) the video-game experience questionnaires were problematic and misapplied. We rebut these critiques in this Commentary.

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Publication
Psychological Science. 28(5), 638-686
Language: English
Date: 2017
Keywords
cognitive abilities, video-games

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