Speakers Daphne Bavelier: Cognitive researcher
Daphne Bavelier studies how the brain adapts to changes in experience, either by nature or by training.
Why you should listen to her:
Daphne Bavelier studies how humans learn -- in particular, how the brain adapts to changes in experience, either by nature (for example, deafness) or by training (for example, playing video games). At her lab, her work shows that playing fast-paced, action-packed entertainment video games typically thought to be mind-numbing actually benefits several aspects of behavior. Exploiting this counterintuitive finding, her lab now investigates how new media, such as video games, can be leveraged to foster learning and brain plasticity.
Quotes by Daphne Bavelier
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“Action video games have a number of ingredients that are really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention, vision.”
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“The effect of video games on the brain [is] very similar to the effect of wine on the health.”
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Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games
- 17:57 Posted: Nov 2012
Daphne Bavelier on the Web
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