Re:Playing action video games may be bad for your brain – lo...
by wyldfire on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:26AM
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> participants who use hippocampus-dependent spatial strategies
My first questions were: "How was this measured/detected? How might I know whether I used these strategies when I play games?"
The answer from your Nature link is very detailed, too detailed to reproduce here. See the section titled, "4 on 8 virtual maze". IIUC they partitioned the groups into "spatial" vs "response" learners by determining whether they navigated a maze while using a memorized sequence of landmarks or without.
My first questions were: "How was this measured/detected? How might I know whether I used these strategies when I play games?"
The answer from your Nature link is very detailed, too detailed to reproduce here. See the section titled, "4 on 8 virtual maze". IIUC they partitioned the groups into "spatial" vs "response" learners by determining whether they navigated a maze while using a memorized sequence of landmarks or without.