Cognitive skills improvement with Video games.
                     COGNITIVE SKILLS IMPROVEMENT WITH 
VIDEO GAMES
Introduction
• Playing video games can lead to various cognitive benefits, such as 
improved reaction time, improved mental flexibility, improved spatial 
memory, and improved attentional capacity.
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Improve cognitive performance
• Brain-training games, which are designed specifically to improve 
cognitive performance, can be beneficial in some cases, but their 
benefits are generally rather limited, especially when compared to 
those of regular video games.
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Point of diminishing return 
• It’s important to keep in mind that different games generally offer 
different benefits, and that, past a certain point of playing, you will 
likely hit a point of diminishing return on some of these benefits.
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Improvements in attention and vigilance
• Video gaming improve performance on the ability to locate, quickly, a 
target stimulus in a field of distractors a test that has been found to be 
a good predictor of driving ability.
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Improvements in executive functioning
• Executive functioning refers to a person’s ability to allot his or her 
mental resources in ways that allow for rapid, efficient problem solving 
or decision-making. 
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Improved ability to engage in multiple tasks 
• Playing video games can improve your multi-tasking ability, by 
increasing your attentional capacity.
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Improve your spatial abilities
• Playing action video games can improve your spatial abilities, including 
things such as enumeration, multiple-object tracking, spatial 
resolution, and visuo-motor coordination.
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Improve visual-to-auditory attentional 
• Playing action games can improve your visual-to-auditory attentional 
shifting ability, which is important for things such as information 
processing and reading abilities.
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Improve Overall Functioning
• Playing video games with a physical component can improve your 
executive functions, attentional processing, and visuo-spatial skills
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Reduction of mental decline
• Cognitive flexibility, attention, working memory, and abstract reasoning all tend 
to decline with age.  
• Many experiments, with elderly participants, show that video game play can 
result in improvement in all these abilities
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