Differential Effects of Music and Video Gaming During Breaks on Auditory and Visual Learning
- The interruption of learning processes by breaks filled with diverse activities is common in everyday life. This study investigated the effects of active computer gaming and passive relaxation (rest and music) breaks on auditory versus visual memory performance. Young adults were exposed to breaks involving (a) open eyes resting, (b) listening to music, and (c) playing a video game, immediately after memorizing auditory versus visual stimuli. To assess learning performance, words were recalled directly after the break (an 8:30 minute delay) and were recalled and recognized again after 7 days. Based on linear mixed-effects modeling, it was found that playing the Angry Birds video game during a short learning break impaired long-term retrieval in auditory learning but enhanced long-term retrieval in visual learning compared with the music and rest conditions. These differential effects of video games on visual versus auditory learning suggest specific interference of common break activities on learning.
Author details: | Shuyan Liu, Maxim S. Kuschpel, Daniel SchadORCiDGND, Andreas HeinzORCiDGND, Michael A. RappORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2015.0140 |
ISSN: | 2152-2715 |
ISSN: | 2152-2723 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26448497 |
Title of parent work (English): | Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking |
Publisher: | Liebert |
Place of publishing: | New Rochelle |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 11 |
Number of pages: | 7 |
First page: | 647 |
Last Page: | 653 |
Funding institution: | China Scholarship Council (CSC grant) [201208080013]; German Research Foundation (DFG grant) [FOR 1617]; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grant) [01EE1406A, 01EE1406I] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |