Flaws found in video game studies

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 13:30 in Psychology & Sociology

(Medical Xpress) -- Over the past several years, many studies have found that people who regularly play action video games outperform people who don’t on tasks that involve perception and cognition. However, a new study has found that most, if not all, of these studies suffer from common pitfalls in experimental design, so that the results of the studies are undermined by methodological shortcomings.

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