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Monday, 24 September 2007 19:00 |
September 25, 2007: Steven Mitroff, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University
The malleability of visual cognition: Effects of videogame expertise
10AM - 11AM, September 25, 2007
3211 EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus
Abstract: An important aspect of visual perception that has gone relatively understudied is how, and under what conditions, a perceiver can influence his or her own visual system. How can specific training regimens and prior experiences influence how and what one sees? In this talk, I will discuss my lab's recent and current research exploring the effects of video game experiences on visual perception. I will present our experiments which demonstrate in what ways action video game players differ from non-video game players, and what the differences may mean for basic visual processing as well as for society more broadly.
Speaker Bio:
B.A. in Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1998 M.A. in Cognitive Psychology, Harvard University, 2000
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Harvard University, 2002
Post-Doc, Dept. of Psychology, Yale University, 2002-2005
Assistant Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, 2005-present.
Location: EB2 Room 3211, NCSU Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC.
Parking: Visitors coming to this talk from off-campus locations should obtain a visitors' parking pass from the Centennial Campus Visitors' Center and park in the Partners Way Parking Deck. For Specific directions, see this map (pdf). Click here for courtesy parking pass.
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