Often it happens when you're trying to fall asleep-players would look for their computer or console because they thought they'd left the game on.” “Some players heard voices, some heard game sounds. “There were lots of examples of players hearing the game music, in the same way as you continue to hear music in your head when you've stopped listening,” she said. This research, conducted by Nottingham Trent University's International Gaming Research Unit, is the first such study to determine a link between video games and auditory responses.Īs reported by The Guardian, researcher Angelica Ortiz De Gortari explains that players heard many different sounds from games after they were done playing them. Previous studies have found other Game Transfer Phenomena that manifest themselves in visual responses, such as Tetris players continuing to see blocks falling even after they close their eyes.

According to a new study, this can be an actual psychological effect of playing games, and it's called a 'Game Transfer Phenomenon.'

Sometimes after a long session of playing a video game, some people will continue to hear the game's sounds in their minds.

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