Tetris as Research Paradigm: An Approach to Studying Complex Cognitive Skills

Wayne Gray	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States
Ray Perez	ONR
John Lindstedt	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Anna Skinner	AnthroTronix, Inc.
Robin Johnson	Advanced Brain Monitoring
Richard Mayer	UC Santa Barbara
Deanne Adams	UC Santa Barbara
Robert Atkinson	Arizona State University

Abstract

Tetris— is the video game most used as a research paradigm by the Cognitive Science community (Mayer, in press). Collectively, the members of this symposium have and are using Tetris to study several phenomena that we each believe is just slightly out of reach but in sight of contemporary cognitive theory.

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