A Video Game Can Change the Brain, May Improve Empathy in Middle Schoolers
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 17:00
in Psychology & Sociology
A fantastical scenario involving a space-exploring robot crashing on a distant planet is the premise of a video game developed for middle schoolers by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to study whether video games can boost kids' empathy, and to understand how learning such skills can change neural connections in the brain.