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#226 - The Price of Distraction

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Effects of Video Games on Attention

In most of our studies we're doing testing before and after let's say a month or six weeks of an intervention a video game intervention. We look at how that ability to attend in the in the game whatever that game may be then allows you to do better on very very different tasks. So I would say we're not there yet but slowly but surely we're learning how we can take these technology delivered experiential treatments and medicine and lead them to new therapies, he says.

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