Hack #68: Improve Visual Attention Through Video Games

Some of the constraints on how fast we can task-switch or observe simultaneously aren't fixed. They can be trained by playing first-person-shooter video games.

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Discussion

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Links

• "Action Video Game Modifies Visual Attention": http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/daphne/visual.html#video
• "Augmenting Human Intellect" by Douglas Engelbart
• The support page for Mind Hacks, from which this hack is excerpted.

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Hack Author

This hack is excerpted from Mind Hacks, by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb, in which it appears as Hack #43.

MattWebb? and TomStafford?

Return to Main Book Page

This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.

See also

• BrainTrainingGames
• MediTation - there is evidence that the attentional blink task can be trained by meditation, as well as video games.