cognitive benefits

There are, of course, caveats. A recent review of more than a decade’s worth of gaming studies found that adolescent and young adult gamers outperformed nongamers in a number of cognitive functions. They were better able to switch between visual tasks, divide their attention between different moving objects and remember the location of hidden objects. Some studies also found gamers to have a higher volume of gray matter, the outer layer of the brain that processes information. Other…