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Brains on video gamesDaphne Bavelier
Brain and Vision Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 12:763-8. 2011..As research in this area is still in its early days, the contributors of this Viewpoint also discuss several issues and challenges that should be addressed to move the field forward...
Neural bases of selective attention in action video game playersD Bavelier
Rochester Center for Brain Imaging, Rochester, NY 14627 8917, USA
Vision Res 61:132-43. 2012....- Removing brakes on adult brain plasticity: from molecular to behavioral interventionsDaphne Bavelier
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester New York 14627 0268, USA
J Neurosci 30:14964-71. 2010..Although these mechanisms remain largely uncharted in the human, we consider how they may provide a biological foundation for the remarkable increase in plasticity after action video game play by amblyopic subjects... - Ordered short-term memory differs in signers and speakers: implications for models of short-term memoryDaphne Bavelier
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Meliora Hall Box 270268, Rochester, NY 14627 0268, USA
Cognition 107:433-59. 2008..Other factors that may affect STM processes in signers are discussed... 
Reflexive gaze orienting induces the line-motion illusionDaphne Bavelier
Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Meliora Hall 0268, Rochester, NY 14627 0268, USA
Vision Res 42:2817-27. 2002..Although attention may accelerate processing at the attended location, alternative mechanisms by which attention could cause the line-motion illusion are considered...- Deafness and visual enumeration: not all aspects of attention are modified by deafnessPeter C Hauser
Department of Research and Teacher Education, National Technical Institute of the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623 5604, USA
Brain Res 1153:178-87. 2007..Thus, early deafness does not enhance all facets of visual attention, but rather its effects are quite specific... - Which aspects of visual attention are changed by deafness? The case of the Attentional Network TestMatthew W G Dye
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 0268, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:1801-11. 2007..These results indicate that not all aspects of visual attention are modified by early deafness, suggesting rather specific effects of cross-modal plasticity... - Short-term memory span: insights from sign languageMrim Boutla
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Nat Neurosci 7:997-1002. 2004.... - Do deaf individuals see better?Daphne Bavelier
Brain and Cognitive Science Department, Meliora Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 0268, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 10:512-8. 2006.... - Changes in search rate but not in the dynamics of exogenous attention in action videogame playersBjorn Hubert-Wallander
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Meliora Hall 0268, Rochester, NY 14627 0268, USA
Atten Percept Psychophys 73:2399-412. 2011..Interestingly, exogenous cues were found to enhance throughput equivalently between gamers and nongamers, suggesting that not all mechanisms known to enhance throughput are similarly enhanced in action videogamers... - Is visual selective attention in deaf individuals enhanced or deficient? The case of the useful field of viewMatthew W G Dye
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
PLoS ONE 4:e5640. 2009..Here, we show that, in a complex attentional task, a performance advantage results for deaf individuals... - Persistent difference in short-term memory span between sign and speech: implications for cross-linguistic comparisonsDaphne Bavelier
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Psychol Sci 17:1090-2. 2006 - Effect of action video games on the spatial distribution of visuospatial attentionC Shawn Green
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 0268, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32:1465-78. 2006..By establishing the causal role of gaming through training studies, the authors demonstrate that action gaming enhances visuospatial attention throughout the visual field... - Visual skills and cross-modal plasticity in deaf readers: possible implications for acquiring meaning from printMatthew W G Dye
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1145:71-82. 2008..We discuss how this may have an influence upon the perceptual processing of written text in deaf students... - Action video game modifies visual selective attentionC Shawn Green
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Nature 423:534-7. 2003..In a fifth experiment, non-players trained on an action video game show marked improvement from their pre-training abilities, thereby establishing the role of playing in this effect... - Enhancing the contrast sensitivity function through action video game trainingRenjie Li
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:549-51. 2009..We found that the very act of action video game playing also enhanced contrast sensitivity, providing a complementary route to eyesight improvement... - Attentional enhancements and deficits in deaf populations: an integrative reviewMatthew W G Dye
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Sciences and University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Restor Neurol Neurosci 28:181-92. 2010..Rather, selected aspects of visual attention are modified in various ways along the developmental trajectory as a result of early deafness... - Components of visual prior entryKeith A Schneider
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
Cogn Psychol 47:333-66. 2003..The results suggest that prior entry effects are primarily caused by sensory facilitation and attentional modifications of the decision mechanism, with only a small part possibly due to an attention-dependent sensory acceleration... - Visual constructive and visual-motor skills in deaf native signersPeter C Hauser
Department of Research and Teacher Education, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623 5604, USA
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ 12:148-57. 2007..Deaf signers were found to perform similarly to hearing controls, suggesting that these tests are valid assessment instruments to use with deaf individuals... - Improved probabilistic inference as a general learning mechanism with action video gamesC Shawn Green
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Curr Biol 20:1573-9. 2010..In addition, this mechanism may serve as a signature of training regimens that are likely to produce transfer of learning... - Paying attention to neurons with discriminating tasteAlexandre Pouget
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Neuron 53:473-5. 2007..Instead, the optimal strategy is to boost the activity of neurons that best discriminate between target and distractors, while essentially ignoring the neurons that respond best to the target... - Changes in the spatial distribution of visual attention after early deafnessJason Proksch
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:687-701. 2002..We conclude that auditory deprivation from birth leads to compensatory changes within the visual system that enhance attentional processing of the peripheral visual field... - Routes to short-term memory indexing: lessons from deaf native users of American Sign LanguageElizabeth A Hirshorn
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, NY, USA
Cogn Neuropsychol 29:85-103. 2012..We further argue that the main driving force behind the shifts in relative biasing is a consequence of language modality (sign vs. speech) and the processing they afford, and not deafness, per se... - Neural correlates of partial lexical activationKathleen Pirog Revill
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:13111-5. 2008..These results provide evidence of activation of a perceptual brain region in response to the semantics of a word while lexical competition is in process and before the word is fully recognized... - Cross-modal plasticity: where and how?Daphne Bavelier
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Meliora Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 3:443-52. 2002.... - Multisensory spatial representations in eye-centered coordinates for reachingAlexandre Pouget
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Cognition 83:B1-11. 2002..This finding may reflect the predominant role of vision in human spatial perception... - Children, wired: for better and for worseDaphne Bavelier
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Neuron 67:692-701. 2010..Counterintuitive outcomes like these, besides being practically relevant, challenge and eventually lead to refinement of theories concerning fundamental principles of brain plasticity and learning... - Human brain plasticity: evidence from sensory deprivation and altered language experienceHelen Neville
Psychology Department, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1227, USA
Prog Brain Res 138:177-88. 2002..Additionally, in the long run, they may contribute to the design of educational and habilitative programs for both normally and abnormally developing children... - Auditory lexical decision, categorical perception, and FM direction discrimination differentially engage left and right auditory cortexDavid Poeppel
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Neuropsychologia 42:183-200. 2004..The findings argue for a view in which speech perception is mediated bilaterally in the auditory cortices and that the well-documented lateralization is likely associated with processes subsequent to the auditory analysis of speech... - The cortical organization of audio-visual sentence comprehension: an fMRI study at 4 TeslaCheryl M Capek
Department of Psychology, Brain Development Lab, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1227, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 20:111-9. 2004..These results are discussed in the context of previous neuroimaging results using American Sign Language (ASL)... - Motion velocity thresholds in deaf signers: changes in lateralization but not in overall sensitivityCraig J Brozinsky
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 21:1-10. 2004.... - A critical period for right hemisphere recruitment in American Sign Language processingAaron J Newman
Department of Psychology, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403 1227, USA
Nat Neurosci 5:76-80. 2002..This is the first demonstration of a 'sensitive' or 'critical' period for language in an RH structure. This has implications for language acquisition and for understanding age-related changes in neuroplasticity more generally...