Motivation Is Important In Game-Based Memory Recall
Abstract
Motivation has been found to direct our attention across a number of studies. In the literature, this phenomenon is referred to as motivated cognition. The present study seeks to extend the work on motivated cognition to an applied setting: video gaming. We measured memory recall performance on a 20-minute game-based attention task. Forty-nine (27 females; 22 males) undergraduate students viewed a sequence of four game-based videos that required them to monitor the video for a number of enemy threats and non-threats, as well as contextual information. The results indicated that those higher in intrinsic motivation were more likely to correctly detect and subsequently recall threat, non-threat, and contextual information. Gamers significantly outperformed non-gamers in this task across all performance measures. We concluded that motivated cognition is indeed influenced by individual differences such as motivation and interest in the activity.
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Publication Title
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Number of Pages
1139-1143
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601267
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
85021840176 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85021840176
STARS Citation
Dewar, Alexis R.; Denues, Kody L.; and Szalma, James L., "Motivation Is Important In Game-Based Memory Recall" (2016). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 4206.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/4206