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Switzerland
2023

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Citations
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Psychology

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77
Citations
31483
World Ranking
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National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Daphne Bavelier is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional areas of study include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, and Sociology and Political Science.

Themes frequently explored in their work include Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Child Development and Digital Technology, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Educational Games and Gamification, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms, and Child and Animal Learning Development.

Key publications by Daphne Bavelier include:

  • A new look at the cognitive neuroscience of video game play, 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Video Game Design for Learning to Learn, 2022, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Action video game play facilitates "learning to learn", 2021, Communications Biology
  • Effects of action video game play on cognitive skills: A meta-analysis, 2023, Technology Mind and Behavior

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bavelier include:

  • C. Shawn Green
  • Benoît Bediou
  • Mor Nahum
  • Frank Padberg
  • Friedhelm C. Hummel

Bavelier's research has been published repeatedly in several venues such as Technology Mind and Behavior, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Cognition.

Best Publications

  • Action video game modifies visual selective attention

    C. Shawn Green;Daphne Bavelier

  • Cross-modal plasticity: where and how?

    Daphne Bavelier;Helen J. Neville

  • Action-Video-Game Experience Alters the Spatial Resolution of Vision:

    C S Green;Daphné 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

  • Exercising your brain: a review of human brain plasticity and training-induced learning.

    C. S. Green;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

  • Cerebral organization for language in deaf and hearing subjects: Biological constraints and effects of experience

    Helen J. Neville;Daphne Bavelier;David Corina;Josef Rauschecker

  • Removing Brakes on Adult Brain Plasticity: From Molecular to Behavioral Interventions

    Daphne Bavelier;Dennis M. Levi;Roger W. Li;Yang Dan

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

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

  • Enhancing the contrast sensitivity function through action video game training.

    Renjie Li;Uri Polat;Walter Makous;Daphne Bavelier

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

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

  • Do deaf individuals see better

    Daphne Bavelier;Matthew W.G. Dye;Peter C. Hauser

  • Visual attention to the periphery is enhanced in congenitally deaf individuals.

    Daphné Bavelier;Andrea Tomann;C Hutton;Teresa Mitchell

  • 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

  • Stereopsis and amblyopia: A mini-review

    Dennis M. Levi;David C. Knill;Daphne Bavelier

  • Impact of Early Deafness and Early Exposure to Sign Language on the Cerebral Organization for Motion Processing

    Daphne Bavelier;Craig Brozinsky;Andrea Tomann;Teresa Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Shawn Green
C. Shawn Green University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dennis M. Levi
Dennis M. Levi University of California, Berkeley
Helen J. Neville
Helen J. Neville University of Oregon
David P. Corina
David P. Corina University of California, Davis
Elissa L. Newport
Elissa L. Newport Georgetown University
Alexandre Pouget
Alexandre Pouget University of Geneva
Peter Jezzard
Peter Jezzard University of Oxford
Allen R. Braun
Allen R. Braun Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Zhong-Lin Lu
Zhong-Lin Lu New York University Shanghai
Josef P. Rauschecker
Josef P. Rauschecker Georgetown University Medical Center

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