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 Send to email | Grand Theft Attention: video games and the brain in General |  By Rough Ty
el 01-Apr-2011 | Having recently come off a Red Dead Redemption jag, I decided, as an act of penance, to review the latest studies on the cognitive effects of video games. Because videogaming has become such a popular pastime so quickly, it has, like television before it, become a focus of psychological and neuroscientific experiments. The research has, on balance, tempered fears that video games would turn players into boggle-eyed, bloody-minded droogs intent on ultraviolence. The evidence suggests that spending a lot of time playing action games - the ones in which you run around killing things before they kill you (there are...
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| Grand Theft Attention: video games and the brain | | Having recently come off a Red Dead Redemption jag, I decided, as an act of penance, to review the latest studies on the cognitive effects of video games. Because videogaming has become such a popular pastime so quickly, it has, like television before it, become a focus of psychological and neuroscientific experiments. The research has, on balance, tempered fears that video games would turn player [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Apr-2011 by Rough Ty in General
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