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Studies Show Benefits of Video Game Playing

Posted on August 19, 2008

The American Psychological Association is profiling a number of studies discussed at this year's Annual Convention of the APA pointing to video games having a number of positive effects on people that play them.In one paper, Fordham University psychologist Fran C. Blumberg, PhD, and Sabrina S. Ismailer, MSED, examined 122 fifth-, sixth- and seventh-graders' problem-solving behavior while playing a video game that they had never seen before to show that playing video games can improve cognitive and perceptual skills.As the children played the game, they were asked to think aloud for 20 minutes....

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