Study: Video games may boost intelligence in kids
Study: Video games may boost intelligence in kids
Study: Video games may boost intelligence in kids
June 13, 2022
By Dan Grossman
Summary
For a long time, the prevailing thought about video games is they rot people's minds and have the potential to promote violence, but a new study, published in the Journal of Scientific Reports, shows video games might give kids an intellectual boost.
The study took 5,000 kids and found the ones that played more than the average hour of video games each day wound up with higher intelligence scores than the ones who spent less time playing games.
Melleno uses the video game Civilization VI, a turn-based strategy game, in class.
The video game allows players to choose historical characters as they compete alongside computer-controlled opponents to grow their individual civilization from a small tribe to control of the entire planet.
"Video games require you to actually focus in a way that reading doesn't necessarily, right? We want people to be active readers, but that's a skill you have to learn where video games is sort of an intrinsic skill that a lot of [students] have already."
Historical games like Civilization are not the only types of video games with proven benefits.
Researchers say the neural pathways involved in accomplishing the game might be involved in other types of real-world decision making that factor into intelligence.
Reference
Grossman, D. (2022, June 13). Study: Video games may boost intelligence in kids. Retrieved June 21, 2022, from https://www.10news.com/news/national/study-video-games-may-boost-intelligence-in-kids