机构：[1]CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China,[2]Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,[3]Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,放射科首都医科大学宣武医院[4]Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China,[5]Institute of Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Video games have been found to have positive influences on executive function in older adults; however, the underlying neural basis of the benefits from video games has been unclear. Adopting a task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study targeted at the flanker task, the present study aims to explore the neural basis of the improved executive function in older adults with video game experiences. Twenty video game players (VGPs) and twenty non-video game players (NVGPs) of 60 years of age or older participated in the present study, and there are no significant differences in age (t = 0.62, p = 0.536), gender ratio (t = 1.29, p = 0.206) and years of education (t = 1.92, p = 0.062) between VGPs and NVGPs. The results show that older VGPs present significantly better behavioral performance than NVGPs. Older VGPs activate greater than NVGPs in brain regions, mainly in frontal-parietal areas, including the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the left supramarginal gyrus, the right angular gyrus, the right precuneus and the left paracentral lobule. The present study reveals that video game experiences may have positive influences on older adults in behavioral performance and the underlying brain activation. These results imply the potential role that video games can play as an effective tool to improve cognitive ability in older adults.
基金：
the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) (2015CB351702),
the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2016084)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31000465).
第一作者机构：[1]CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China,[2]Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,
通讯作者：
通讯机构：[1]CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China,[2]Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714)：
Ping Wang,Xing-Ting Zhu,Zhigang Qi,et al.Neural Basis of Enhanced Executive Function in Older Video Game Players: An fMRI Study[J].FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE.2017,9(NOV):382.doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00382.
APA：
Ping Wang,Xing-Ting Zhu,Zhigang Qi,Silin Huang&Hui-Jie Li.(2017).Neural Basis of Enhanced Executive Function in Older Video Game Players: An fMRI Study.FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE,9,(NOV)
MLA：
Ping Wang,et al."Neural Basis of Enhanced Executive Function in Older Video Game Players: An fMRI Study".FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE 9..NOV(2017):382
