AUTHOR=Neri Francesco , Smeralda Carmelo Luca , Momi Davide , Sprugnoli Giulia , Menardi Arianna , Ferrone Salvatore , Rossi Simone , Rossi Alessandro , Di Lorenzo Giorgio , Santarnecchi Emiliano TITLE=Personalized Adaptive Training Improves Performance at a Professional First-Person Shooter Action Videogame JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.598410 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.598410 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
First-Person Shooter (FPS) game experience can be transferred to untrained cognitive functions such as attention, visual short-term memory, spatial cognition, and decision-making. However, previous studies have been using off-the-shelf FPS games based on predefined gaming settings, therefore it is not known whether such improvement of in game performance and transfer of abilities can be further improved by creating a in-game, adaptive in-game training protocol. To address this question, we compared the impact of a popular FPS-game (Counter-Strike:Global-Offensive–CS:GO) with an