Learning to learn: lessons from action video games

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• Professor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva
• Friday 10 February 2017, 16:30-18:00
• Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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Daphne Bavelier is an international expert on how humans learn. In particular, she studies how the brain adapts to changes in experience, either by nature – for example, deafness – or by training – for example, playing video games. She now directs a Cognitive Neuroscience research team at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Initially trained in Biology at the ‘Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris’, she then received a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT and trained in human brain plasticity at the Salk Institute. 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 counter-intuitive finding, her lab now investigates how new media, such as video games, can be leveraged to foster learning and brain plasticity.

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