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The Tetris aftereffect can action with added video games,[2] with any abiding beheld assignment (such as classifying beef on microscope slides, weeding, acrimonious or allocation fruit, flipping burgers, active continued distances, or arena lath amateur such as chess or go), and in added acoustic modalities.[citation needed] For example, there is the addiction for a addictive tune to comedy out ad-lib in one's apperception (an earworm). In kinesthesis, a actuality anew on acreage afterwards spending continued periods at sea may move with an ad-lib agitation motion, accepting become acclimatized to the address authoritative such movements (known as sea legs or mal de debarquement). Computer programmers and developers sometimes accept agnate experiences, and address absent about cipher back they beddy-bye at night.

Perhaps the ancient acknowledgment of the Tetris aftereffect is in Thomas Hobbes 17th Century book Leviathan, Part I: Of Man, which states that, "from actuality continued and angrily attent aloft geometrical figures, a man shall in the dark, admitting awake, accept the images of curve and angles afore his eyes".