Plasticity and Video Games (Articles - Book Chapters)

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Plasticity and Video Games (Articles):

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

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

Dye, M.W.G., Green, C.S. & Bavelier, D. (In Press). The development of attention skills in action video game players.  Neuropsychologia.

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 consistency effects, Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 100-112.

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

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Plasticity and Video Games (Chapters):

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

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

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