from the journal PLoS ONE
There is widespread concern about the
amount of time young people spend
playing video games. How much time do
you spend on video games? Maybe we
should consider it. The journal of the
Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE
reports that playing video games for an
hour each day can improve performance
on cognitive tasks that use similar mental
processes as those in the game. Those in
the study were non-gamers who played
five different games on their smartphones
for an hour a day, five days a week for
one month. Researchers found that video
games do not appear to cause a general
improvement in mental abilities, but
repeated use of certain cognitive
processes in video games appears to
improve performance on other similar
tasks as well—equating to muscles that
can be trained with repetitive actions.