Advantages And Reasons: The Benefits Of Playing Video Games

Nowadays, world have evolved to a state where as young as one years old to as old as sixty years have been exposed to video games. Start from a big box to hand-held video games console. Video games has always been associated with teenagers as them been criticized by the society as mind paralyses and destructive garbage. Therefore, it gives bad impression to people who play video games among the society.
However, video game gives more benefits than negative effects. Researchers have gone through years of study to find the benefits of playing video games. We only see a person playing video games as wasting their time when video games enhance our cognitive flexibility — the mental faculty of creative and lateral thinking, in a way we hardly able to notice.
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Most types of training only lead to improvements at the specific task at hand, with limited improvements on other tasks, even if they are closely related. "That's why when you give a test that's just a little different from what you did in class, half the students fall flat," Bavelier said. "Our brains constantly perform probabilistic inferences — as you drive along and detect some unexpected moving object on the right side of the road, say a motorcycle, your brain will compute how likely it is that you are on a collision path with that motorcycle, and then infer from this probability whether you need to steer left or not," Bavelier explained. "This kind of inference is used each time we make a decision." Action video games give an edge "by improving this inference process," she noted, while strategy or role-playing games did not have the same effect. Therefore, video games can enhance the performance of academic of an