A study of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore revealed that playing video games for an hour each day can improve your kid's performance on certain cognitive tasks that use similar mental processes to those involved in the game. In the research, non-gamer participants played five different games on their smartphones for an hour a day, five days of the week for one month. Each participant was assigned one game. The researchers found that people who had played the action game had improved their capacity to track multiple objects in a short span of time, while hidden object, match three objects and spatial memory game players improved their performance on visual search tasks.
A study of Nanyang Technological...
