Videogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.

There is growing interest in how exposure to videogames is associated with young children's development. While videogames may displace time from developmentally important activities and have been related to lower reading skills, work in older children and adolescents has suggested that experien...

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Autores principales: Alexandria D Samson, Christiane S Rohr, Suhyeon Park, Anish Arora, Amanda Ip, Ryann Tansey, Tiana Comessotti, Sheri Madigan, Deborah Dewey, Signe Bray
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:347ec1bf1ae6466d9876c352f99995d42021-12-02T20:14:07ZVideogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257877https://doaj.org/article/347ec1bf1ae6466d9876c352f99995d42021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257877https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203There is growing interest in how exposure to videogames is associated with young children's development. While videogames may displace time from developmentally important activities and have been related to lower reading skills, work in older children and adolescents has suggested that experience with attention-demanding/fast-reaction games positively associates with attention and visuomotor skills. In the current study, we assessed 154 children aged 4-7 years (77 male; mean age 5.38) whose parents reported average daily weekday recreational videogame time, including information about which videogames were played. We investigated associations between videogame exposure and children's sustained, selective, and executive attention skills. We found that videogame time was significantly positively associated only with selective attention. Longitudinal studies are needed to elucidate the directional association between time spent playing recreational videogames and attention skills.Alexandria D SamsonChristiane S RohrSuhyeon ParkAnish AroraAmanda IpRyann TanseyTiana ComessottiSheri MadiganDeborah DeweySigne BrayPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257877 (2021)
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Alexandria D Samson
Christiane S Rohr
Suhyeon Park
Anish Arora
Amanda Ip
Ryann Tansey
Tiana Comessotti
Sheri Madigan
Deborah Dewey
Signe Bray
Videogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.
description There is growing interest in how exposure to videogames is associated with young children's development. While videogames may displace time from developmentally important activities and have been related to lower reading skills, work in older children and adolescents has suggested that experience with attention-demanding/fast-reaction games positively associates with attention and visuomotor skills. In the current study, we assessed 154 children aged 4-7 years (77 male; mean age 5.38) whose parents reported average daily weekday recreational videogame time, including information about which videogames were played. We investigated associations between videogame exposure and children's sustained, selective, and executive attention skills. We found that videogame time was significantly positively associated only with selective attention. Longitudinal studies are needed to elucidate the directional association between time spent playing recreational videogames and attention skills.
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author Alexandria D Samson
Christiane S Rohr
Suhyeon Park
Anish Arora
Amanda Ip
Ryann Tansey
Tiana Comessotti
Sheri Madigan
Deborah Dewey
Signe Bray
author_facet Alexandria D Samson
Christiane S Rohr
Suhyeon Park
Anish Arora
Amanda Ip
Ryann Tansey
Tiana Comessotti
Sheri Madigan
Deborah Dewey
Signe Bray
author_sort Alexandria D Samson
title Videogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.
title_short Videogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.
title_full Videogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.
title_fullStr Videogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.
title_full_unstemmed Videogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.
title_sort videogame exposure positively associates with selective attention in a cross-sectional sample of young children.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/347ec1bf1ae6466d9876c352f99995d4
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