How Video Games Help The Brain

Perhaps one of the most common things that people do right now, now that we are stuck at home, is play video games. If you are one of those who do that right now, then you might be at the receiving end of the benefits of video games on your brain.

Researchers found experienced gamers have faster information processing abilities and can allocate more cognitive power to individual visual stimuli. Playing video games can cause long-term changes in the brain and lead to improvements in temporal visual selective attention.

More about this over at Neuroscience News.

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I really hope this is true for the sake of my nephews... and I really wish I was able to use the tiny joysticks made for thumbs... but alas all my computer games are played on a PC now....
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