Increased connectivity in default mode and salience networks in video game players: A rsfMRI Study on task-based (tfMRI) Data

摘要

Introduction: Video games have become an increasingly popular past time and with its growing popularity it's important to study the long-term impacts of video game play on our brains. While previous works have shown that habitual game play leads to changes in the Default Mode Network (DMN) and Salience Network (SN) [1], our study aims to expand this scope to include 165 brain networks and atlases to determine how the brain connectivity of gamers compare to control groups. Changes in the connectivity can indicate functional differences in the brain and can be used to explain why video game players perform better at certain tasks.