Benoit Bediou, Deanne M. Adams, Richard E. Mayer, Elizabeth Tipton, C. Shawn Green, Daphne Bavelier. In this 2018 meta-study, Benoit Bediou and his colleagues gathered over 80 scientific papers and analyses to look at the effects of video games on different brain functions. In order to do this, they first applied a rigorous selection process,…
Jing Feng, Ian Spence, Jay Pratt. This study from 2010 showed that playing an FPS improves your spatial abilities (example: mentally rotating a shape). Even more interesting: women, who have lower spatial skills on average than men, actually caught up to men’s levels in spatial cognition after playing an FPS for just 10 hours, and…
Adam J Toth, Magdalena Kowal, Mark J Campbell. The team behind this article is the first to use methods similar to ours: they compared cognitive abilities between players of low, intermediate and high ranking, to try and understand what makes a top-level player better than the rest. This 2019 study took CS:GO players of silver…