Gabriel Arantes Tiraboschi

Université de Sherbrooke | UdeS

Numerous studies in the last decade have shown the potential for video games to enhance several cognitive processes, with most evidence targeting visual attention. However, a debate has emerged in the literature pointing to flawed experimental design being responsible for such findings. For example, participants’ expectancy effects (i.e., a placebo...

Objective: We aim to investigate the direction of causality of the association between adolescent video game playing and later development of ADHD symptoms using a population-based sample of Canadian Youth. Method: The present study is based on longitudinal cohort data (N = 1,467). Youth self-reported weekly hours of video game playing as well as A...

Previous findings suggest a right hemispheric contribution to body image distortions only in women. Here we set out to replicate this finding and investigate whether the sex of the body image would play a role in this lateralization. We report here two experiments of body size estimation using the divided visual field methodology. In Experiment 1 w...

Videogames de ação, são jogos eletrônicos de ritmo frenético com cenários tridimensionais complexos, múltiplos estímulos visuais efêmeros de movimentação rápida, alta demanda do processamento visual, da atenção e coordenação mão-olho. Diversos trabalhos nos últimos quinze anos têm demonstrado que jogar videogames de ação pode aprimorar diversos pro...

Introduction: Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is an experience characterized by a tingling sensation in response to visual and auditory ordinary stimuli. It is believed that ASMR helps to relax, reduce anxiety, and insomnia. This study tries to shed some light on the efficiency of visual and auditory stimuli classified as ASMR in induci...

About 20-30 % of patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder do not respond to conventional pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been established as an effective alternative to treat depression. The most widely used protocol and with more evidence of efficacy for major depression consists o...

Representações negativas da imagem corporal são uma característica central dos transtornos alimentares. A insatisfação corporal entre mulheres pode ser um fator de risco para o desenvolvimento dessas patologias, que atingem apenas 1 homem a cada 10 mulheres atingidas. Respostas cerebrais lateralizadas a imagens de manequins tridimensionais humanos...

In this chapter we described how we used a psychophyscal method to investigate emotional bias on perceived faces after previous visual adaptation to happy and sad faces, taking into account the observer’s sex, the sex of the stimulus face, and the lateral visual field. Although we did not find any significant effects of the sex of the observers or...

Academic experiences constitute a poorly discussed and researched subject, which is also truth for the suffering that may go along with such experiences, especially in the psychology courses, as well as the suffering that can accompany them, stemming mainly from contact with the psychic suffering of others or with an academic content more directly...