investiGaming - Research Findings on Gender and Games

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investiGaming is a publication of the Serious Game Design group in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University, 2007-2009

This gateway is partially supported by grant 0631771 from the National Science Foundation.

The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent Michigan State University or the National Science Foundation.

Spatial Cognition

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De Lisi, R, and Wolford, JL (2002)

J Genet Psychology 2002 Sep;163(3):272-82,

Synopsis:

This experimental study compared 3rd grade boys’ and girls’ 2-D mental rotation performance before and after playing computer games.

Keywords:

journal, psychology, elementary school, spatial cognition

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Dixon, shanly and Simon, Bart (2005)


DIGRA conference

Synopsis:

An ethnographic study of a small group of boys playing console games over several months was used to argue against a view of digital game space in terms of disjunctive other, parallel or virtual worlds (e.g. Foucault’s heterotopias). 

Keywords:

conference, children, console, player types, gaming social context , parents and gaming, spatial cognition

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Feng, Jing, Ian Spence, and Jay Pratt (2007)


Psychological Science 18 (10) , 850–855

Synopsis:

Explains how playing an action video game can virtually eliminate the gender difference in spatial attention while simultaneously decreasing the gender disparity in mental rotation ability, a higher-level process in spatial cognition.

Keywords:

journal, psychology, spatial cognition, action games,

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Ferguson, Christopher J. , Amanda M. Cruz and Stephanie M. Rueda (2008)


Sex Roles, Volume 58, Numbers 3-4 / February

Synopsis:

A pilot sample of seventy three undergraduates identified common objects as “male” “female” and “neutral” exemplars.  Then seventy two undergraduates were asked to draw the Rey Complex Figure and the previously categorized objects from memory.  These drawings were then analyzed.

Keywords:

journal, spatial cognition, adults younger

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Ginn, SR, and Pickens, SJ (2005)


Percept Mot Skills. 2005 Jun;100(3 Pt 1):877-81.

Synopsis:

31 men and 59 women enrolled at a small, private church-affiliated university completed Mental Rotations Test in order to examine whether participation in different types of spatial activities would relate to women’s performance on that test.

Keywords:

journal, spatial cognition, non gamers, experiment, adults younger

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Holmes, Bob (2009)


New scientist, February 23

Synopsis:

Ten male and 10 female volunteers viewed photographs of urban and natural sceneswhil electrical activity of their brains was measured.

Keywords:

academic, media-press, experiment, spatial cognition,brain research

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Holmes, Bob (2009)


New scientist, February 23

Synopsis:

Ten male and 10 female volunteers viewed photographs of urban and natural sceneswhil electrical activity of their brains was measured.

Keywords:

academic, media-press, experiment, spatial cognition,brain research

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Jenkins, Henry (1998)


In From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, Eds., MIT Press

Synopsis:

Offers a cultural geography of video game spaces, one which uses traditional children’s play and children’s literature as points of comparison to the digital worlds contemporary children inhabit.

Keywords:

book, chapter, children, spatial cognition, what men want, gaming culture

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New, Joshua , Krasnow, Max, Truxaw, Danielle, & Gaulin, Stephen (2007)


Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, August 21

Synopsis:

Presents evidence for an evolved sexually dimorphic adaptation that activates spatial memory and navigation skills in response to fruits, vegetables and other traditionally gatherable sessile food resources.

Keywords:

conference, experiment, spatial cognition

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Ortner, Tuulia M. and Monika Sieverding (2008)


Sex Roles Volume 59, Numbers 3-4

Synopsis:

Using a sample of 161 men and women (mean age=31.90) from Austria, the study looks at the effect of gender stereotype activation by priming the subjects for a spatial relations test.

Keywords:

Academia, Experiment, journal article, Austria, Gender theories, spatial cognition, gender stereotypes, psychology

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Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia, Geiser, Christian, and Lehmann, Wolfgang (2005)


Personality and Individual Differences http://www2.uni-siegen.de/~fb02poh/files/WS%2005-06/PDF/PAIDII.pdf

Synopsis:

This study examined 861 German secondary-school students to determine how computer-game preference relates to mental-rotation test (MRT) performance and to gender differences.

Keywords:

journal, Germany, experiment, spatial cognition, non gamers, middle school, gender theories, player types

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Terlecki, M., and Newcombe, N. (2005)


Sex Roles, v53, 433-441

Synopsis:

This study used a new questionnaire called the Survey of Spatial Representation and Activities (SSRA), to examine spatial experiences with computers and videogames in a sample of nearly 1,300 undergraduate students.

Keywords:

journal, academia, digital divide, computer skills, survey, spatial cognition

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Vasilyeva, Marina, & Bowers, Edmond (2006)


Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 95, 255-277

Synopsis:

In order to study how young children use geometric features of layouts in solving mapping tasks, 3-to-6 year old children were asked to identify a target location in a layout shaped as an isosceles triangle by using information provided in a picture of that layout.

Keywords:

journal, psychology, spatial cognition, children, preschool

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