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7377
National Ranking
3977

Overview

C. Shawn Green is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. They also have work related to sociology and political science as well as artificial intelligence.

The scientist's research topics encompass a wide range of areas including cognitive abilities and testing, neural and behavioral psychology studies, child and animal learning development, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, child development and digital technology, and educational games and gamification.

Green has published extensively in notable venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Technology Mind and Behavior
  • Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Notable recent papers include:

  • "How variability shapes learning and generalization" (2022), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "A new look at the cognitive neuroscience of video game play" (2020), published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • "Video Game Design for Learning to Learn" (2022), published in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Action video game play facilitates "learning to learn"" (2021), published in Communications Biology
  • "Effects of action video game play on cognitive skills: A meta-analysis." (2023), published in Technology Mind and Behavior

Frequent co-authors of C. Shawn Green include Aaron Cochrane, Daphné Bavelier, Aaron R. Seitz, Jocelyn Parong, and Mohan Ji. These collaborations reflect ongoing research projects within their scientific community and interdisciplinary efforts.

Best Publications

  • Action video game modifies visual selective attention

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier

  • Effect of action video games on the spatial distribution of visuospatial attention

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier

  • Learning, Attentional Control, and Action Video Games

    C.S. Green;D. Bavelier;D. Bavelier

  • Enumeration versus multiple object tracking: the case of action video game players

    C.S. Green;D. Bavelier

  • Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills

    Benoit Bediou;Deanne M. Adams;Richard E. Mayer;Elizabeth Tipton

  • Increasing Speed of Processing With Action Video Games

    Matthew W.G. Dye;C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier

  • Brain Plasticity Through the Life Span: Learning to Learn and Action Video Games

    Daphne Bavelier;C. Shawn Green;Alexandre Pouget;Paul Schrater

  • The Development of Attention Skills in Action Video Game Players.

    M. W. G. Dye;C. S. Green;D. Bavelier

  • Brains on video games

    Daphne Bavelier;C. Shawn Green;Doug Hyun Han;Perry F. Renshaw

  • Improved Probabilistic Inference as a General Learning Mechanism with Action Video Games

    C. Shawn Green;Alexandre Pouget;Daphne Bavelier

  • Internet Gaming Disorder in Children and Adolescents

    Douglas A. Gentile;Kira Bailey;Daphne Bavelier;Daphne Bavelier;Jeanne Funk Brockmyer

  • Children, wired: for better and for worse.

    Daphne Bavelier;C. Shawn Green;Matthew W.G. Dye

  • The effect of action video game experience on task-switching

    C. Shawn Green;Michael A. Sugarman;Katherine Medford;Elizabeth Klobusicky

  • Games for Health for Children—Current Status and Needed Research

    Tom Baranowski;Fran Blumberg;Richard Buday;Ann DeSmet

  • Perceptual Learning During Action Video Game Playing

    C. Shawn Green;Renjie Li;Daphne Bavelier

  • Action video game play facilitates the development of better perceptual templates

    Vikranth R. Bejjanki;Vikranth R. Bejjanki;Ruyuan Zhang;Renjie Li;Alexandre Pouget;Alexandre Pouget

  • Enhancing Attentional Control: Lessons from Action Video Games.

    Daphne Bavelier;C. Shawn Green

  • Improving Methodological Standards in Behavioral Interventions for Cognitive Enhancement

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier;Arthur F. Kramer;Arthur F. Kramer;Sophia Vinogradov

  • On methodological standards in training and transfer experiments.

    C. Shawn Green;Tilo Strobach;Torsten Schubert

  • Stretching the limits of visual attention: the case of action video games

    Bjorn Hubert-Wallander;C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier

Frequent Co-Authors

Daphne Bavelier
Daphne Bavelier University of Geneva
Douglas A. Gentile
Douglas A. Gentile Iowa State University
Zhong-Lin Lu
Zhong-Lin Lu New York University Shanghai
Richard E. Mayer
Richard E. Mayer University of California, Santa Barbara
Susanne M. Jaeggi
Susanne M. Jaeggi University of California, Irvine
Nora S. Newcombe
Nora S. Newcombe Temple University
Martin Buschkuehl
Martin Buschkuehl University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Seth D. Pollak
Seth D. Pollak University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sarah M. Coyne
Sarah M. Coyne Brigham Young University
Torsten Schubert
Torsten Schubert Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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