English Explanatory Dictionary

Tetris effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The effect of seeing hallucinatory images of a repetitive activity done earlier.

Word forms

Tetris effect

Etymology

From Tetris + effect, since players of the video game may find themselves thinking about fitting shapes together in the real world. The earliest known use of the term is in Jeffrey Goldsmith's article "This is Your Brain on Tetris", published in Wired in May 1994.

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