Brain responses during strategic online gaming of varying proficiencies: Implications for better gaming

doi:10.1002/brb3.1076

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	Brain responses during strategic online gaming of varying proficiencies: Implications for better gaming
	Wang, Min 1; Dong, Guangheng 1,2; Wang, Lingxiao 3; Zheng, Hui 1; Potenza, Marc N.4,5,6,7,8
通讯作者	Dong, Guangheng(dongguangheng@zjnu.edu.cn)
摘要	Background: Online gaming is a complex and competitive activity. However, little attention has been paid to brain activities relating to gaming proficiency. Methods: In the current study, fMRI data were obtained from 70 subjects while they were playing online games. Based on their playing, we selected 24 clips from each subject for three levels of gaming proficiency (good, poor, and average), with each clip lasting for 8 seconds. Results: When comparing the brain responses during the three conditions, good-play trials, relative to poor-or average-play trials, were associated with greater activation of the declive, postcentral gyrus, and striatum. In post-hoc analyses taking the identified clusters as regions of interest to calculate their functional connectivity, activation of the declive during good-play conditions was associated with that in the precentral gyrus and thalamus, and activation in the striatum was associated with that in the inferior frontal gyrus and middle frontal cortex. Conclusions: Taken together, findings suggest specific regional brain activations and functional connectivity patterns involving brain regions and circuits involved in sensory, motor, automatic and executive functioning and their coordination are associated with better gaming. Specifically, for basic functions, such as simple reaction, motor control, and motor coordination, people need to perform them automatically; for highly cognitive functions, such as plan and strategic playing, people need to engage more executive functions in finishing these works. The automatically processed basic functions spare cognitive resources for the highly cognitive functions, which facilitates their gaming behaviors.
关键词	automatic processing brain responses fMRI functional connectivity online gaming
	2018-08-01
语种	英语
DOI	10.1002/brb3.1076
发表期刊	BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
ISSN	2162-3279
卷号	8 期号:8 页码:9
收录类别	SCI
资助项目	State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning[CNLYB 1207] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31371023] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31371023] ; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning[CNLYB 1207]
出版者	WILEY
WOS关键词	VIDEO GAME ; COGNITIVE CONTROL ; PREFRONTAL CORTEX ; DECISION-MAKING ; NEURAL BASIS ; ATTENTION ; ACTIVATION ; MOVEMENTS ; CAUDATE ; SYSTEM
WOS研究方向	Behavioral Sciences ; Neurosciences & Neurology
WOS类目	Behavioral Sciences ; Neurosciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000449070600027
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/27393
通讯作者	Dong, Guangheng
作者单位	1.Zhejiang Normal Univ, Dept Psychol, 688 Yingbin Rd, Jinhua, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 2.Zhejiang Normal Univ, Inst Psychol & Brain Sci, Jinhua, Peoples R China 3.Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Yale Univ, Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, New Haven, CT USA 5.Yale Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurobiol, New Haven, CT USA 6.Yale Univ, Sch Med, Child Study Ctr, New Haven, CT USA 7.Yale Univ, Sch Med, Natl Ctr Addict & Subst Abuse, New Haven, CT USA 8.Connecticut Mental Hlth Ctr, New Haven, CT USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Min,Dong, Guangheng,Wang, Lingxiao,et al. Brain responses during strategic online gaming of varying proficiencies: Implications for better gaming[J]. BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR,2018,8(8):9.
APA	Wang, Min,Dong, Guangheng,Wang, Lingxiao,Zheng, Hui,&Potenza, Marc N..(2018).Brain responses during strategic online gaming of varying proficiencies: Implications for better gaming.BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR,8(8),9.
MLA	Wang, Min,et al."Brain responses during strategic online gaming of varying proficiencies: Implications for better gaming".BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR 8.8(2018):9.