People who play video games tend to have superior sensorimotor decision-making skills, study finds

Video games can get a bad rep as being a time waste, but can they actually have positive effects on brain functioning? A study published in Neuroimage: Reports suggests that video games can lead to increased decision-making skills and improvement in brain activities. Video games may have a reputation as being a lazy activity, they can be very engaging for the brains of players due to their sensory rich and cognitively stimulating nature. Video game playing requires the ability to make quick decisions and pay attention to details while playing the game. “Video games are played by the overwhelmi...