Modern Psychological Studies
Volume
30
Number
2
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Date
2024
Abstract
Games of all modalities have been found to improve different cognitive skills. This experiment examined the cognitive skills of visual attention and search, and explored whether different modalities of one game would have different effects on visual search abilities. Specifically, we asked whether playing a game alone or with a partner, or playing an analog or digital version of this game would have measurable effects on visual attention and search. Participants (N = 30) completed a visual search task before and after playing the card game SET in three different experimental conditions. SET was chosen because of its focus on visual searching and matching. A three-way analysis of variance was conducted to analyze the data collected from the experiment. The findings indicate that playing the game may improve visual search performance regardless of the modality in which it is played. However, contrary to our hypothesis, there was no significant effect of modality. Limitations, practical implications, and future directions are further discussed.
Subject
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Document Type
article
DCMI Type
Text
Language
English
Rights
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License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Recommended Citation
Stoll, Cecelia and Proksch, Shannon
(2024)
"Effects of Gameplay Context on Visual Search Performance,"
Modern Psychological Studies: Vol. 30:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol30/iss2/3
Department
Dept. of Psychology