The Surprising Benefits of Gaming - Prof. Shawn Green - #38
C. Shawn Green is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who studies how people learn and how experience reshapes perception and cognition. As an undergraduate he joined a lab investigating how congenital deafness alters vision, and while testing his measures on a few avid gamer friends he found they scored far above where anyone should, a puzzle that became his senior thesis and launched a career. His work with Daphne Bavelier helped establish that fast paced action video games, particularly first person shooters, can sharpen visual attention, speed of processing…
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