From: The Telegraph
Video gaming children ‘more creative’
November 4, 2011
The Telegraph:
Researchers at Michigan State University, in the United States, found that playing video games was linked to greater creativity, regardless of the type of game played.
Linda Jackson, the professor of psychology at Michigan State who led the research, said that the findings should encourage game designers to try to discover what it is about video games that stimulates creativity.
She said: “Once they do that, video games can be designed to optimize the development of creativity while retaining their entertainment values such that a new generation of video games will blur the distinction between education and entertainment.”
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