Cognitive development: Gaming your way out of dyslexia?

Bavelier, Daphné; Green, C.S.; Seidenberg, M.S.

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.051

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Cognitive development: Gaming your way out of dyslexia?

ContributorsBavelier, Daphné; Green, C.S.; Seidenberg, M.S.

Published inCurrent biology, vol. 23, no. 7, p. R282-R283

Publication date2013

Abstract

A recent study found that dyslexic children trained on action video games show significant improvements on basic measures of both attention and reading ability, suggesting future directions for the study of dyslexia intervention paradigms.

Affiliation entities

Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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Brain & Learning Lab

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BAVELIER, Daphné, GREEN, C.S., SEIDENBERG, M.S. Cognitive development: Gaming your way out of dyslexia? In: Current biology, 2013, vol. 23, n° 7, p. R282–R283. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.051

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PID : unige:91880
DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.051

Additional URL for this publicationhttp://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982213002583

Journal ISSN0960-9822

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Cognitive development: Gaming your way out of dyslexia?

A recent study found that dyslexic children trained on action video games show significant improvements on basic measures of both attention and reading ability, suggesting future directions for the study of dyslexia intervention paradigms.

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