Playing an Action Video Game Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition
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…