The Real Life Psychology Behind The Tetris Effect

If you haven’t seen it already, the Tetris Effect Trailer that Playstation dropped back in June is one of the most moving advertisements in a long time. It mentions a study about amnesiacs who can’t form new memories, and how they dreamed of playing Tetris hours and even days later. So today on Psych of Play, were going to take a look at that study and what is actually going on.
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Games Shown:
Tetris Effect (2018) - Resonair
Tetris NES (1984) - Philips, Sega
Tetris Worlds (2001) - THQ
The “New” Tetris (1999) - H2O entertainment
Movies/TV shown
Your Name (2016) - Toho
Memento (2000) - Summit Entertainment
Finding Nemo (2003) - Walt Disney Pictures
50 First Dates (2004) - Columbia Pictures
• Video
• 14-Year-Old Prodigy Pr...
• Robert Stickgold - Why...
• TETRIS - OFFICIAL TRAILER
• Tetris Effect - E3 201...
Music Sources:
Giant Step - Ben Prunty
Yours Forever - Tetris Effect
Humanity’s Last Chapter - Tetris Efect
Stories about the world that once was - Chris Zabriskie
Impulse - Ben Prunty
Research Sources:
Stickgold: Dreaming cement’s learning, Main Study
www.scientific...
Abstract: science.science...
Types of Amnesia
www.human-memor...
Optimization and Shaping thoughts
constantrenewa...
Main study summarized
www.sciencemag...
Hippocampus and Procedural Memory
www.news-medic...
Memory Retrieval
www.scienceabc...
Declarative VS Procedural
www.human-memor...
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