Playing Video Games Offers Learning Across Life Span, Say Studies

Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 23:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Certain types of video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamers' dexterity as well as their ability to problem-solve -- attributes that have proven useful not only to students but to surgeons, according to new research. Skills transfer to the classroom, surgical procedures, even scientific thinking.

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