Video games have ‘beneficial effects’ on brain and boost decision-making, study says

“These findings begin to illuminate how video game playing alters the brain in order to improve task performance and their potential implications for increasing task-specific activity.

“This lack of speed-accuracy trade-off would indicate video game playing as a good candidate for cognitive training as it pertains to decision-making.”

The study’s lead author Tim Jordan, is one strong example of the benefits of gaming.

As a child, Mr Jordan had poor vision in one eye, for which he was asked to cover his good eye and play video games as a way of strengthening the vision in his bad one.

He credits it with helping him go from legally blind in that eye to being able to play lacrosse and paintball and work as a postdoctoral researcher.

Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1641853/video-games-brain-study-breakthrough-beneficial-effects-boosts-decision-making