According to a new study, playing video games regularly boosts children’s cognitive skills, particularly those related to memory and attention.
The head of the research team, an assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Fairmont in the United States, was quoted in the study as saying that the medical team’s work focused on analysing data collected by American national health institutes on the development of cognitive knowledge in teenagers’ brains in the American scientific journal “Gamma.”
The study, according to Charani, was based on imaging the brain activity of a group of 2000 kids between the ages of nine and ten who were divided into two groups, one of which never played any video games and the other of which played them for at least three hours per day.
The American researcher continued, “We gave the two groups a set of activities, and the results—which depended on imaging brain activity with MRI—showed that children who were playing video games recorded a lot of activity in the brain regions linked to attention and memory.”
He said that by demonstrating their neurological impacts, these results improve the likelihood of lessening the debate over whether playing video games helps this age group’s cognitive function, but he advised conducting more research at older stages after the age of ten.
While Charani emphasised the negative effects of prolonged screen time on the body and mind, there are other aspects of childhood that are also important, such as physical activity, sleep patterns, and other sports that promote healthy development.
Study: Playing video games regularly helps kids’ memories.
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