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Action videogames change brains: study

Development, Games, Neuroscience, Psychology journal, psychology

A team led by psychology professor Ian Spence at the University of Toronto reveals that playing an action videogame, even for a relatively short time, causes differences in brain activity and improvements in visual attention.

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