US Navy reports that video games may improve soldiers capabilities

by G. Finkel on March 3rd, 2010

Improving cognitive skills is now creating better soldiers, finds a new US navy research.
The cognitive effects of certain video-game-style activities are not only impressive but can last a couple of years, a researcher for the Navy recently explained.

navy12 300x219 US Navy reports that video games may improve soldiers capabilities

If gamers don’t want to believe that video games have an effect on them — at least any effect that will cause them to do antisocial things — will they accept research that suggests brain games make their work better?
Here’s Ray Perez, program officer for the Office of Naval Research’s warfighter performance department:
“We have discovered that video game players perform 10 to 20 percent higher in terms of perceptual and cognitive ability than normal people that are non-game players…”

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