Article: Video 'gameplay enhances visual skills'.(Entertainment & Leisure)

First-player action video game users are around 40 per cent more observant than non-players, according to researchers at University of Rochester, New York. Study conducted with small group of 18-to-23-year-old college undergraduates suggests experienced players of first-person action video games can switch attention rapidly, better identify objects in their peripheral vision, and process rapidly changing visual information with greater speed and ...

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