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Video Games and Brain Aging
Senior Class, Horace Mann School, New York, USA
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
- 1 Senior Class, Horace Mann School, New York, USA
- 2 Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
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Abstract
This research was conducted to assess the relative impact of video game play on cognitive and motor skills. Prior research has shown that video game play facilitates cognitive and motor skills, while other research has focused on the negative outcomes of the activity, such as addiction, aggression, obesity, repetitive strain injuries, and the gradual loss of interest in other activities. In a pre-post video game manipulation compared against participants in a comparable control condition, this study’s findings support prior research on the positive impacts of video game play on memory, but not motoric response time enhancement. Future iterations of this research and its limitations are discussed.
KeywordsShort-Term MemoryCognitiveConcentrationPerceptionReaction TimeBrain AgingLevel of InvolvementMotorRepetition
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