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Post by Lone Wanderer on Dec 20, 2017 20:18:57 GMT
Source and full article: Action games expand the brain's cognitive abilities, study suggestsSummary: The human brain learns and adapts. Numerous research studies have focused on the impact of action video games on the brain by measuring cognitive abilities, such as perception and reaction time. An international team of psychologists has assembled data from the last fifteen years to quantify how action video games impact cognition. The research has resulted in two meta-analyses, which reveal a significant improvement in the cognitive abilities of gamers. This study focuses on one specific video game genre, action video (war or shooter) games that have long been considered as mind-numbing.
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