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010 - Can Games Make You Smarter?

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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The Importance of Variety in Brain Training

Why action games and not other practicing specific tasks or slivers of skills? So I mean, one of the dominant theories in the domain is that variety is key to promoting generalization. Action games never literally do the same thing twice in an action game. And so because of this, you have to learn something that's slightly more general. You kind of have to learn how to use your vision flexibly.

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