Playing games will help you… focus on studying?

A recent scientific study has shown that the habit of playing video games is not only harmless, but also helps to increase a child’s concentration and attention span.
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The study also showed that playing games can enhance brain regions that are active and responsible for attention and information storage, specifically skills that help us perceive the shape of an object such as square, triangle, hexagon or pyramid and make these functions more efficient. This is also the result of 100 in-depth research papers by dedicated researchers.
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In the study, led by Marc Palaus from the Oberta de Catalunya University in Spain, gamers showed improvements in various types of attention in both sustained and selective attention. .
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Playing video games increases the size and efficiency of brain regions involved in cognition. What’s more, for players, brain regions associated with attention were found to be useful and required little activation to sustain sustained attention during demanding challenges.
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On the other hand, the right frontal lobe in long-term gamers was found to be larger than normal. For the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, the team collected and analyzed 122 scientific studies, 22 of which looked at structural changes in the brain and 100 of which looked at changes changes in brain function or behavior.
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However, we also cannot deny that playing games too much will also have a negative effect, so please play in moderation so that society has no reason to think that games are bad anymore.