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Are There Differences Between Video Gamers and Non-Video Gamers?
The video gaming questionnaire is part of a larger screen time questionnaire that asked kids how many hours they spent on consoles or playing mobile phone. We compared performance when the kids performed two tasks inside the MRI scanner, these probe impulse control and working memory between video gamers and non-video gamers. So we have seen significant improvements on two tasks in terms of faster reaction time and video gamers,. better performance in terms of impulse control, and also better performance in tasks involving working memory.
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