The present research aimed to investigate the performance in five variables of Continuous Performance Test, a maintained attention test. Participants included 30 individuals, aged between 10 and 16 years old, involved in the activities of a Non-governmental Organization (NGO) for poor children, organized in two groups: one of videogame players (VGP) and another with no-players videogame (NVGP). All of them were examined in the CPT-II and the group of NJVG was trained for 20 sessions in two videogames. The NJVG were re-examined in the CPT-II. It could be verified that the group of JVG showed a better performance than the group of NJVG before experimental intervention. After experimental intervention it could be noted that this last group presented a better performance in the test variables evaluated. The results showed that the training conduction and the videogames used were efficient for improving the NVGP adolescents' performance in the CPT-II.
Videogame; attention; Continuous Performance Test
