Plasticity and Video Games (Articles - Book Chapters)

Plasticity in Deafness, Memory, and Language (Articles - Book Chapters)

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Plasticity and Video Games (Articles):

Li, R., Polat, U., Scalzo, F., & Bavelier, D. (2010). Reducing backward masking through action game training. Journal of Vision, 10(14):33, 1-13. PDF File

Bavelier, D., Levi, D. M., Li, R. W., Dan, Y., & Hensch, T. K. (2010). Removing the brakes on adult brain plasticity: From molecular to behavioral interventions. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(45), 14964-14971. PDF File

Hubert-Wallander, B., Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2010). Stretching the limits of visual attention: The case of action video games. WIREs Cognitive Science, Wiley, 1. PDF File

Dye, M.W., & Bavelier, D. (2010). Differential development of visual attention skills in school-age children. Vision Research, 50, 452–459. PDF File

Green, C. S., Pouget, A., & Bavelier, D. (2010). Improved probabilistic inference, as a general learning mechanism with action video games. Current Biology, 20, 1573-15792. PDF File

Bavelier, D., Green, C. S., & Dye, M. W. G. (2010). Children - wired, for better or for worse. Neuron, 67, 692-701. PDF File

Mitchelll, D., Levi, D., & Bavelier, D. (2009). Learning to see in stereo. Nature Neuroscience, 12(11), 1353. PDF file

Dye, M.W.G., Green, C.S., Bavelier, D. (2009). Increasing speed of processing with action video games. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(6), 321-326. PDF File

Green, C.S., Li, R. & Bavelier, D. (2009). Perceptual learning during action video games. TopiCS. Special issue on perceptual learning. PDF File

Bavelier, D. & Green, C.S. (2009). Video game based learning: there is more than meets the eye. Frontiers in Neuroscience, special issue on Augmented Cognition, 3(1), 109.

Dye, M. G. W., Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2009). The development of attention skills in action video game players. Neuropsychologia, 47(8-9), 1780-1789. PDF file

Li, R., Polat, U., Makous, W. & Bavelier, D. (2009). Enhancing the contrast sensitivity function through action video game playing. Nature Neuroscience. PDF File

Achtman, R.L., Green, C.S., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Video games as a tool to train visual skills. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, Special Issue on Visual System Damage and Plasticity, 26(4-5), 435-446. PDF File

Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (2008). Exercising your brain: A review of human brain
plasticity and training induced learning. Psychology and Aging, Special Issue on Plasticity, 23(4), 692-701. PDF File

Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (2007). Action video game experience alters the spatial resolution of attention. Psychological Science, 18(1), 88-94. PDF File

Pouget, A. & Bavelier, D. (2007). Paying attention to neurons with discriminative taste. Neuron. Neuron Previews. 53(4), 473-475. PDF File

Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (2006). Effect of action video games on the spatial distribution of visuospatial attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32(6), 1465-1468. PDF File

Green, C.S., & Bavelier, D. (2006). Enumeration versus object tracking: Insights from video game players. Cognition, 101, 217-245. PDF File

Schneider, K.S. & Bavelier, D. (2003). Components of visual prior entry. Cognitive Psychology, 47, 333-366. PDF File

Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (2003). Action video games modify visual selective attention. Nature, 423, 534-537. PDF File

Zemel R., Behrmann, M., Mozer, M. & Bavelier, D. (2002). Experience-dependent perceptual grouping and object-based attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 202-217. PDF File

Bavelier, D. & Neville, H. (2002). Cross-modal plasticity: where and how? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3(6), 443-452 PDF File

Bavelier, D., Schneider, K.A. & Monacelli, A. (2002). Reflexive gaze orienting induces the line-motion illusion. Vision Research, 42, 2817-27.PDF File

Pouget, A., Ducom, J.C., Torri, J. & Bavelier, D. (2002). Multi-sensory representations in eye-centered coordinates. Cognition, 83(1), B1-B11. PDF File

Bavelier, D., Deruelle, C., & Proksch, J. (2000). Positive and negative compatibility effects, Perception & Psychophysics, 62(1), 100-112.

Deruelle, C. & Bavelier, D. (1996). Coding of visual information within and between objects. Perception, 25, 93.

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Deafness/ASL Research (Articles):

Bavelier, D., & Hirshorn, E. A. (2010). I see where you're hearing: How cross-modal plasticity may exploit homologous brain structures. Nature Neuroscience, 13(11), 1309-1311. PDF File

Vannest, J., Newport, E. L., Newman, A. J., & Bavelier, D. (2010). Interplay between morphology and frequency in lexical access: The case of the base frequency effect. Brain Research [Epub ahead of print].

Newman, A. J., Supulla, T., Hauser, P., Newport, E., & Bavelier, D. (2010). Prosadic and narrative processing in American Sign Language: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 52(2), 669-676. PDF File

Newman, A. J., Supalla, T., Hauser, P., Newport, E., & Bavelier, D. (2010).Dissociating neural sybsystems for frammar by contrasting word order and inflection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 107(16), 7539-7544. PDF File

Dye, M. W. G. & Bavelier, D. (2010). Attentional enhancements and deficits in deaf populations: An integrative review. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, Special Issue on Development and Plasticity of Multisensory Functions, 28(2), 181-192. PDF File

Dye, M.W.G., Hauser, P.C. & Bavelier, D. (2009). Is Visual Selective Attention in Deaf Individuals Enhanced or Deficient? The Case of the Useful Field of View. PLoSONE, 4(5). PDF File

Dye, M.W.G., Hauser, P.C., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Visual skills and cross-modal plasticity in deaf readers: Possible implications for acquiring meaning from print. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1145, 71-82. PDF File

Bavelier, D., Newman, A., Mukherjee, M., Hauser, P., Kemeny, S., Braun, A., & Boutla, M. (2008). Encoding, rehearsal and recall in signers and speakers: Shared network but differential engagement. Cerebral Cortex, 18(10), 2263-2274. PDF File

Bavelier, D., Newport, E., Hall, M., Supalla, T.S., & Boutla, M. (2008). Ordered short-term memory differs in signers and speakers: Implications for models of short-term memory. Cognition, 107(2), 433-459. PDF File

Revill, K.P., Aslin, R.N., Tanenhaus, M., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Neural correlates of partial lexical activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 105(35), 13111-13115. PDF File

Hauser, P., Dye, M.W.G., Boutla, M., Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2007). Deafness and visual enumeration: Not all aspects of attention are modified by deafness. Brain Research, 1153, 178-187. PDF File

Hauser, P., Cohen, J., Dye, M.W.G., & Bavelier, D. (2007).Visual Constructive and Visual–Motor Skills in
Deaf Native Signers. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 12(2), 148-157. PDF File

Dye, M.W.G., Baril, D., & Bavelier, D. (2007). Which aspects of visual attention does deafness modify? The case of the Attentional Network Task. Neuropsychologia, 45(8), 1801-1811. PDF File

Bavelier, D., Newport, E., Hall, M., Supalla, T., & Boutla, M. (2006). Persistent difference in short-term memory span between sign and speech: Implications for cross-linguistic comparisons. Psychological Science, 17(12). PDF File

Bavelier, D., Dye, M.W.G., & Hauser, P. (2006). Do deaf individuals see better? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 512-518. PDF File

Capek, C.M., Bavelier, D., Corina, D., Newman, A.J. & Neville, H.J. (2004). The cortical organization of audio-visual sentence comprehension: An fMRI study at 4T. Cognitive Brain Research, 20(2), 111-119. PDF File

Poeppel, D., Guillemin, A., Thompson, J., Fritz, J., Bavelier, D. & Braun, A.R. (2004). Auditory lexical decision, categorical perception, and FM direction discrimination differentially engage left and right auditory cortex. Neuropsychologia, 43(2) 183-200. PDF File

Brozinsky, C.J. & Bavelier, D. (2004). Motion velocity thresholds in deaf signers: Changes in lateralization but not in overall sensitivity. Cognitive Brain Research, 21, 1-10. PDF File

Boutla, M., Supalla, T. Newport, L. & Bavelier, D. (2004). Short-term memory span: Insights from sign language. Nature Neuroscience, 7(9), 1-6. PDF File

Bavelier, D., Newport, E., and Supalla, T. (2003). Signed or Spoken: Children need natural languages. Volume 5 (1), 19-32, Washington DC: The DANA Press. Link

Neville, H., Bavelier, D. (2002) Human brain plasticity: evidence from sensory deprivation and altered language experience. Review Article. Progress in Brain Research, 138, 177-88. PDF File

Bavelier, D. & Neville, H. (2002). Cross-modal plasticity: where and how? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3(6), 443-452 PDF file

Proksch, J. & Bavelier, D. (2002). Changes in the spatial distribution of visual attention after early deafness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(5), 1-15. PDF file

Newman, A., Bavelier, D., Corina, D.P., Jezzard, P. & Neville, H. (2002). A critical period for right hemisphere recruitment in American Sign Language processing. Nature Neuroscience, 5(1), 76-80. PDF file

Bavelier, D., Brozinsky, C., Tomann, A., Mitchell, T., & Liu, G. (2001). Impact of early deafness and early exposure to sign language on the cerebral organization for motion processing. The Journal of Neuroscience, 21(22), 8931-8942. PDF file

Bavelier, D., Tomann, A., Hutton, C., Mitchell, T., Liu, G., Corina, D., & Neville, H. (2000). Visual attention to the periphey is enhanced in congenitally deaf individuals. Journal of Neuroscience, 20(17)(RC 93), 1-6. PDF file

Corina, D., Neville, H., & Bavelier, D. (1998). What's right about the neural organization of sign language? Trends in Cognitive Science, 2(12), 468-470. PDF File

Bavelier, D., Corina, C., & Neville, H. (1998). Brain and language: A perspective from sign language. Neuron, 21, 275-278. PDF file

Neville, H.J. and Bavelier, D. (1998). Neural organization and plasticity of language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 8(2), 254-258. Review. PDF file

Bavelier, D., Corina, D., Jezzard, P., Clark, V.P., Karni, A., Rauschecker, J., Braun, A., Turner, R. & Neville, H. (1998). Hemispheric Specialization for English and American Sign Language: Left invariance, right variablity. Neuroreport, 9, 1537-1542. PDF File

Neville, H., Bavelier, D., Corina, D., Rauschecker, J., Karni, A., Lalwani, A., Braun, A., Clark, V., Jezzard. P., & Turner, R. (1998). Cerebral organization for language in deaf and hearing subjects: Biological constraints and effects of experience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(3), 922-929. PDF file

Bavelier, D., Corina, D., Jezzard, P., Padmanabhan, S., Clark, V. P., Karni, A., Prinster, A., Braun, A., Lalwani, A., Rauschecker, J., Turner, R. & Neville, H. (1997). Sentence reading: A functional MRI study at 4T. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 664-686. PDF file

Neville, H. & Bavelier, D. (1996). Aumento de las areas visuales en los sordos: Los cortex visual y auditivo no son tan distintos como se cree. Mundo Cientifico, 172, 854-857.

Neville, H. & Bavelier, D. (1996). L'extension des aires visuelles chez les sourds. La Recherche, 289, 90-93.

Bavelier, D. (1994). Repetition blindness between visually different items: The case of pictures and words. Cognition, 51(3), 199-236. PDF file

Bavelier, D., Prasada, S. & Segui, J. (1994). Repetition blindenss between words: Nature of the orthographic and phonological representations involved. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20(6), 1-19. PDF file

Bavelier, D., & Jordan, M. (1992). A Dynamical Model of Priming and Repetition Blindness. In Hanson, S. J., Cowan, J.D., and Giles, C.L (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5, pp. 879-886. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufman Publishers. PDF file

Bavelier, D. & Potter, M. (1992). Visual and phonological codes in repetition blindness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 134-147. PDF file

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Plasticity and Video Games (Chapters):

Anderson, A. & Bavelier, D. (In press). Action game play as a tool to enhance perception, attention and cognition. In S. Tobias & D. Fleycher (Eds). Information Age Publishing: IAP, Charlotte, NC.

Bavelier, D. & Green, C. S. (2010). Entry: Video Games. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Perception (Volume 2), SAGE Publication, Inc.

Bavelier, D., Dye, M.W.G. & Green, C.S. (2009). Exercising your brain: Training-related brain plasticity. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, Volume IV - Section Plasticity (pp. 153-164). MIT Press: Cambridge.

Dye, M.W.G., Hauser, P.C., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Visual attention in deaf children and adults: Implications for learning environments. In M. Marschark & P.C. Hauser (Eds.), Deaf Cognition: Foundations and Outcomes (pp. 250-263). OUP.

Cohen, J.E., Green, C.S., & Bavelier, D. (2007). Training visual attention with video games: Not all games are created equal. In Harry O'Neil & Ray Perez (Eds). Computer games and adult learning (pp. 205-227). Elsevier Group Inc.

Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (2006). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Video Games. In Messaris, P & Humphreys, L. (Eds). Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication. New York, Peter Lang. PDF file (Please note that the posted chapter is a submitted draft and may be slightly different from the final published version)

Bavelier, D. & Neville, H.J. (2002). Neuroplasticity, Developmental. vol 3, pp. 561-578. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed). Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. San Diego: Academic Press.

Bavelier, D. (1999). Role and nature of object representations in perceiving and acting, pp. 151-180. In Coltheart, V. (Ed.), Fleeting Memories. Boston: MIT Press.

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Deafness/ASL Research (Chapters):

Hall, M. & Bavelier, D. (In Press). Working memory, deafness and sign language. In M. Marschark & P. E. Spencer (Eds.), The Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language and Education. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Bavelier, D. & Dye, M. W. G. (2010). Entry: Loss of a Sense: Effect on Others, Psychological. In B. Goldstein (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Perception, SAGE Publications, Inc.

Dye, M.W.G., Hauser, P.C., & Bavelier, D. (2008). Visual attention in deaf children and adults: Implications for learning environments. In M. Marschark & P.C. Hauser (Eds.), Deaf Cognition: Foundations and Outcomes (pp. 250-263). OUP.

Hall, M. & Bavelier, D. (In Press). Working memory, deafness and sign language. In M. Marschark and P.E. Spencer (Eds). The Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language and Education. Oxford University Press.

Hauser, P. C., Paludneviciene, R., Supalla, T., & Bavelier, D. (2008). American Sign Language-Sentence Reproduction Test: Development and implications. In R. M. de Quadros, (Ed.), Sign Language: Spinning and unraveling the past, present and future (pp. 160-172). Petropolis, Brazil: Editora Arara Azul.

Bavelier, D., Newport, E., and Supalla, T. (2003). Signed or spoken: Children need natural languages. Cerebrum. Washington DC: The DANA Press.

Neville, H. & Bavelier, D. (2002). Human Brain Plasticity: Evidence from Sensory Deprivation and Altered Language Experience. In M.A. Hofman, G.J. Boer, A.J.G.D. Holtmaat, E.J.W. van Someren, J. Verhaagen and D.F. Swaab (Eds), pp. 177-188. Plasticity in the Adult Brain: From Genes to Neurotherapy. Progress in Brain Research Series, Elsevier Science: Amsterdam.

Bavelier, D. & Neville, H.J. (2002). Neuroplasticity, Developmental. vol 3, pp. 561-578. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed). Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. San Diego: Academic Press.

Newport, E., Bavelier, D. & Neville, H. (2001). Critical thinking about critical period: Perspectives on a critical period for language acquisition. In Dupoux, E. (Ed.), Language, Brain and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jacques Mehler. Boston: MIT Press.

Neville, H.J. & Bavelier, D. (2000). Cerebral organization of language and the effects of experience, pp. 261-274. In C.A. Shaw and J.C. McEachern (Eds.), Toward a Theory of Neural Plasticity. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press - Taylor and Francis Publishers.

Neville, H.J. & Bavelier, D. (2000). Variablity of developmental plasticity. In J. McClelland and R. Siegler (Eds.), Mechanisms of Cognitive Development; Behavioral and Neural Perspectives. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Neville, H.J. & Bavelier, D. (2000). Specificity and plasticity in Neurocognitive development in humans, pp. 83-98. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The New Cognitive Neuroscience: 2nd Edition. Boston: MIT Press.

Neville, H.J. & Bavelier, D. (1997). Variablity of developmental plasticity within sensory and language systems: Behavioral, ERP and fMRI studies. In D. Hann, L. Huffman, I.I. Lederhendler & D. Meinecke (Eds.) Proceedings of the NIMH Conference on Advancing Research on Developmental Plasticity: Integrating the Behavioral Science and Neuroscience of Mental Health. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office.

Bavelier, D. (1992). Phonological repetition blindness. Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Bavelier, D. (1988). De l'identifcation du mot a l'integration de la phrase: effet de cecite a la repetition [From word identification to sentence integration: the repetition blindness effect]. Master's thesis, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

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