Does your child love playing video gamesIJ let him, as it can help alter the brain regions responsible for attention and visuospatial skills — skills that enable us to recognise a square, triangle, cube or pyramid — as well as make them more efficient, say scientists in an analysis of over a 100 scientific studies.
In the study, researchers led by Marc Palaus from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain, revealed that gamers showed improvements in several types of attention, such as sustained attention or selective attention.
Playing video games also increased the size and efficiency of brain regions related to visuospatial skills.
Further, in gamers, the brain regions involved in attention were found to be more efficient and required less activation to sustain attention on demanding tasks.
On the other hand, the right hippocampus was found enlarged in long-term gamers.