Can Playing the Computer Game “Tetris” Reduce the Build-Up of Flashbacks for Trauma? A Proposal from Cognitive Science

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0004153 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. e4153 ◽

Cited By ~ 170

Author(s):

Emily A. Holmes ◽

Ella L. James ◽

Thomas Coode-Bate ◽

Catherine Deeprose

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Computer Game

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Language as a mental travel guide

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19003182 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

Charles P. Davis ◽

Gerry T. M. Altmann ◽

Eiling Yee

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Human Cognition ◽

Travel Guide

Abstract Gilead et al.'s approach to human cognition places abstraction and prediction at the heart of “mental travel” under a “representational diversity” perspective that embraces foundational concepts in cognitive science. But, it gives insufficient credit to the possibility that the process of abstraction produces a gradient, and underestimates the importance of a highly influential domain in predictive cognition: language, and related, the emergence of experientially based structure through time.

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Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion

10.1017/9781108767972 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Brett E. Maiden

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science ◽

Israelite Religion

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Embodiment and Cognitive Science

10.1017/cbo9780511805844 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 276

Author(s):

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Science

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In a Working Mood?

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105.20.1.3 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 3-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Leonard Reinecke ◽

Sabine Trepte

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Task ◽

Prior Experience ◽

Computer Game ◽

Control Group ◽

Mood Management ◽

Management Processes ◽

Quasi Experimental ◽

Personal Media ◽

Experimental Group ◽

Subsequent Task

Abstract. This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of exposure to a computer game on arousal and subsequent task performance. After inducing a state of low arousal, participants were assigned to experimental or control conditions via self-selection. Members of the experimental group played a computer game for five minutes; subjects in the control group spent the same amount of time awaiting further instructions. Participants who were exposed to the computer game showed significantly higher levels of arousal and performed significantly better on a subsequent cognitive task. The pattern of results was not influenced by the participants' prior experience with the game. The findings indicate that mood-management processes associated with personal media use at the workplace go beyond the alteration of arousal and affect subsequent cognitive performance.

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