• Playing video games may help boost brainpower, a study suggests.
• Young people who played video games for at least three hours per day each day outperformed their classmates.
• Playing video games “may be connected with better cognitive abilities involving working memory and reaction inhibition,” the study concludes.

Video games have been criticized by some parents for supposedly having a negative impact on their children, but a new study suggests that playing them may help boost brainpower.

Young people who played video games for at least three hours per day each day outperformed their classmates who did not participate in this activity in terms of both their ability to remember knowledge and their ability to control their urges.

According to the findings of the study, “these results demonstrate that playing games may be connected with better cognitive abilities involving working memory and reaction inhibition, as well as with alterations in underlying brain circuits.” (These results demonstrate that playing games may be connected with better cognitive abilities involving working memory and reaction inhibition.)

According to the findings of the study, engaging in activities such as playing video games “may be related with enhanced cognitive abilities involving working memory and reaction inhibition, as well as alterations in underlying brain circuitry.”

Also Read

Could video games bring NFTs to the masses?

ARIS, Dec 19, 2021 (AFP) - A year ago, NFTs were obscure virtual...