For years, the scientific debate over action video games has largely been a story of benefits. Players of fast-paced titles such as first-person shooters and racing games have repeatedly outperformed non-players on measures of visual attention, tracking, and search, feeding a popular narrative that gaming sharpens the mind. But a new study published in BMC Psychology adds a crucial and uncomfortable twist to that narrative: not all gaming is cre…
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