Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Participants were divided into three groups. One group played Call of Duty: Black Ops Multiplayer in a variety of mapsfor 9 hours over 2 weeks, another played in the just one map for 9 hours over 2 weeks, and the last did not play any videogames for the duration of the study. All groups took three measures of visual attention skill at the start and close of thestudy: Useful Field of View (UFOV), Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) and Attentional Blink (AB). Results indicate thatthose who played Call of Duty did not improve more than those who did not from pretest to posttest, regardless of group.