This week a British teenager won almost a million in championships of the the computer game Fortnite.
So what other good news can we find in evidence of the positive aspects of gaming.
in a 2014 article
Granic, I., Lobel, A., & Engels, R. (2014). The benefits of playing video games. American Psychologist, 69, 66-78. summarise the evidence in favour of playing and call for future research. they focus specifically on mental health advantages.
Cognitive and emotional skills
Video Games for Well-Being: A Systematic Review on the Application of Computer Games for Cognitive and Emotional Training in the Adult Population (2018) reviewed evidence from 35 studies which found benefits.
A 2017 systematic review - Neural Basis of Video Gaming: A Systematic Review reviewed 116 articles. it looked for evidence of neural change and impact of playing. Including evidence of adverse effects. It found some impacts on: regarding attention, cognitive control, visuospatial skills, cognitive workload, and reward processing
Better spatial cognition
Bediou, B., et al (2018). Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills. Psychological Bulletin, 44, 77-110. found that domains of top-down attention and spatial cognition, were enhanced.
Creativity.
Moffatt (2017) found links between certain types of creativity including flexibility and the playing of games.
Intelligence
Exploring the relationship between video game expertise and fluid intelligence
Athanasios V. Kokkinakis (2017)
for further references to articles on video games learning and intelligence try searching ERIC
However for others they cause harm
According to the latest classification of mental health diseases IC 11 from the World Health Organisation. Gaming is listed as an addiction.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) 2016 update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) also listed gaming as a disorder in a recent update
Search Pubmed to find further articles on the medical/ cognitive aspects of gaming
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