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010 - Can Games Make You Smarter?

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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The Importance of Sharp Vision in Action Games

Action video games benefit these types of activities and skills when other activities don't. You can get very good at, you know, the little tasks in say Nintendo brain age, but you're not suddenly globally good at reasoning or short term memory. The reason the actual games are of interest is because they do actually seem to extend beyond the domain.

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