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 experience wi...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2021-09, Vol.16 (9), p.e0257877-e0257877
Hauptverfasser: Samson, Alexandria D, Rohr, Christiane S, Park, Suhyeon, Arora, Anish, Ip, Amanda, Tansey, Ryann, Comessotti, Tiana, Madigan, Sheri, Dewey, Deborah, Bray, Signe
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0257877