Cognitive Benefits of Gaming

 

Cognitive benefits of gaming

Luke Noone

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The article I chose to research is called ‘A large scale test of the gaming enhancement hypothesis’ (https://peerj.com/articles/2710.pdf), written by Andrew K. Przybylski and John C. Wang. The article was published on the 16th of November 2016. There goal was to determine how a young person’s gaming experience affected there reasoning performance and whether gaming improved a young person’s cognitive ability.

 

To do this, they conducted a study of 1,847 school aged children over a four-day period. Questions asked during the test included self-reported play behaviour to determine whether the participant frequently played video games and which type of games they played, action games, multiplayer online games or strategy games. They were then instructed to complete the 60-item Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices Plus (RPM) task (https://psycho-tests.com/test/raven-matrixes-test), which measures deductive intelligence. The conclusion they were able to draw from this test is that “there is no relation between interest in, or regular play of, electronic games and general reasoning ability.”

 

I chose this article because it looked to answer a quite under-researched area of knowledge, at the time. When they did their research there was very little survey’s done on this topic, and the survey’s which had been conducted usually consisted of a small number of participants. Hence why a large-scale survey on this subject piqued my interest. I thought their methods of research was very thorough and gave quite a conclusive answer but also allowed for further research to confirm their own.

 

This article helped me reaffirm that there is no correlation between gaming and improved cognitive ability. One piece of knowledge I uncovered was that even as recently as 2016, research into the Cognitive Benefits of Gaming was heavily under-researched and, which intrigued me because this means that further research into this topic is possible and knew results could be uncovered and brought forward.

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