Playing three-dimensional video games boosts stereo vision.
Curr Biol
; 34(11): R524-R525, 2024 Jun 03.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38834021
ABSTRACT
Playing two-dimensional video games has been shown to result in improvements in a range of visual and cognitive tasks, and these improvements appear to generalize widely1,2,3,4,5,6. Here we report that young adults with healthy vision, surprisingly, showed a dramatic improvement in stereo vision after playing three-dimensional, but not two-dimensional, video games for a relatively short period of time. Intriguingly, neither group showed any significant improvement in binocular contrast sensitivity. This dissociation suggests that the visual enhancement was specific to genuine stereoscopic processing, not indirectly resulting from enhanced contrast processing, and required engaging in a disparity cue-rich three-dimensional environment.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Vision, Binocular
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Video Games
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Depth Perception
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Curr Biol
Journal subject:
BIOLOGIA
Year:
2024
Type:
Article