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Computer game improves children’s math performance
The Baltimore Sun: Parents whose children struggle with math may have new reason to be hopeful: A recent study at the Johns Hopkins University suggests that young people can improve their performance by carrying out
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Playing Action Video Games Might Make You a Better Driver
New York Magazine: Back in the day when jocks were jocks and geeks were geeks, you could tell who spent their evenings plugged into video games by who tucked their shirts into their underwear. But
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Want to drive better? Play these types of video games, says new study
Gizmag: Remember all those years you spent in your youth playing Half-Life and Timesplitters on your PS2, and how your parents would yell at you because they couldn’t understand how playing video games would help
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Playing Action Video Games Boosts Visual Motor Skill Underlying Driving
Playing action-based video games may boost players’ ability to coordinate incoming visual information with their motor control, a skill critical to many real-world behaviors including driving, new research shows. The findings are published in Psychological
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Product Placement Ineffective in Violent Video Games
Pacific Standard: In spite of the many studies that suggest they increase users’ aggression and hostility, violent video games continue to be extremely popular, and thus extremely profitable. Clearly, they’re going to continue to proliferate
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Should Parents Play Videogames With Their Children?
The Wall Street Journal: About twice a month the Davis family microwaves a bag of popcorn and sprawls around a large flat-screen TV for the night. But they don’t stream Netflix. They fire up a Nintendo
