Friday, March 15, 2013

Certain Cognitive Skills May Be Enhanced By Video Game 'Exercise' On Tasks That Use Similar Mental Processes

Playing video games for an hour each day can improve subsequent performance on cognitive tasks that use similar mental processes to those involved in the game, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Adam Chie-Ming Oei and Michael Donald Patterson of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Non-gamer participants played five different games on their smartphones for an hour a day, five days of the week for one month. Each participant was assigned one game... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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