Does playing action video games change your brain?

The research team also pointed out that the beneficial effects in their study were found when participants spread out the amount of time they played over weeks or months, and advised short bouts of play, rather than binge-playing for hours in one sitting. — AFP

New international research has found that playing action video games could have a beneficial effect on the brain by expanding its cognitive abilities, including perception, attention and reaction time.

Led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, the research team together carried out two meta-analyses on research spanning the last 15 years to look at how video games can affect cognition.