Does playing a lot of games at home affect the perception of gamers?

With the pandemic Covid-19 has been and is still a danger to the whole society, staying at home gaming is one of the actions recommended by WHO to protect your health gamer and family. However, playing games for a long time has an effect on Gamer’s perception or not is still a question that makes parents headache.

Recently, the week starting March 16 is brain awareness week 2020. The activity of this year’s theme is to increase public interest in brain science research to support more research. related research. The purpose of this study is to remove the negative image of the game that society has long viewed and give a fairer view.

The game in this study are divided into 5 main categories and these 5 main categories are further divided into sub-categories.

Traditional games are games such as puzzles, cards, including titles 1 player game.

Simulation games – sports, driving or life simulation games like The Sims.

Strategy game like StarCraft.

Action gamedepending on whether the character can be seen or not, it will be divided into 3rd person or 1st person perspective like Call of Duty.

Fantasy game allows exploration of fantasy environments such as Skyrim.

In this review, the researchers found several improvements in cognitive function. They found that people who often play video games do better at sustaining attention, especially action-type games that can improve selective attention. Changes in brain activity suggest that players in the action game are better at selective information and effectively distributing attention to important information.

So to answer the question play games at home can cause cognitive impairment of gamers or not, the answer is absolutely no. Of course, that’s when gamers play games in moderation and are always conscious of protecting the health of themselves and their families.
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