Year: 2004
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis focused on the effects of computer game playing on spatial skills and examined the possibly differential response to training between the sexes.The concepts of computer games and spatial ability were introduced and previous studies in the subject area were also reviewed.The empirical research contained a five-hour 3D action computer game treatment, which was found not to have a significant impact on the subjects' mental rotation skills.The females in the experimental group gained more from practice than the males, but as an identical trend was visible in the control group as well, a conclusion could not be drawn.Statistically significant initial gender differences in mental rotation were not witnessed, experienced gamers' mental rotation skills were not markedly stronger than the non-gamers' skills, and neither success in a word game, nor in the 3D action game were found to correlate with mental rotation skills.
Author: Mika Hirvasoja
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2339671473