When it comes to mainstream media, video games usually get the short end of the stick, at best, and the business end of the stick more often. That's why I was pleasantly surprised to see an article entitled, "This is Your Brain on Video Games" in the Brain Special Issue of Discovery recently.
It's a nice read, and I won't ruin it for anyone, but, in short, it indicates that playing videogames can help to sharpen an individual's brain - not in the "hand-eye coordination" way that we hear as a somewhat frequent retort to the media's latest frenzied attempt to blame anything from violence in our schools and road-rage to terrorism and global warming on our favorite digital passtime, but in what they describe as "mental dexterity" - essentially, playing videogames can help train a person to solve problems. Who knew?
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