Does playing action video games change your brain?


  • TECH
  • Sunday, 17 Dec 2017

New research has found that playing action video games could help boost certain cognitive abilities.

New international research has found that playing action video games could have a beneficial effect on the brain by expanding its cognitive abilities including perception, attention and reaction time.

Led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, together the team carried out two meta-analyses on research spanning the last 15 years to look at how video games can affect cognition.

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