{"id":4062,"date":"2019-08-02T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","slug":"videogames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/08\/02\/videogames\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogames"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently a British teenager won almost a million in championships of the computer game Fortnite.\u00a0 So what other good news can we find in evidence of the positive aspects of gaming?<\/p>\n

Economic impact<\/u><\/p>\n

The BFI report, \u201cScreen Business: How tax incentives help power economic growth across the UK<\/a>\u201d, says that the gaming industry directly employs 20,430 people full-time in development, publishing and retail contributing \u00a31.52bn in gross value added (GVA) to the UK economy.
\nIn a 2014 article\u00a0Granic, I., Lobel, A., & Engels, R. (2014)\u00a0The benefits of playing video games<\/a><\/u>.<\/u> American Psychologist,<\/em> 69, 66-78. summarise the evidence in favour of playing and call for future research. They focus specifically on mental health advantages.<\/p>\n

Cognitive and emotional skills
\n<\/u>
\nVideo Games for Well-Being: A Systematic Review on the Application of Computer Games for<\/a><\/u> Cognitive and Emotional Training in the Adult Population (2018) reviewed evidence from 35 studies which found benefits.
\nA\u00a02017 systematic review – Neural Basis of Video Gaming: A Systematic Review<\/a>\u00a0reviewed 116 articles. It looked for evidence of neural change and impact of playing. It Included evidence of adverse effects. It found some impacts on attention, cognitive control, visuo-spatial skills, cognitive workload, and reward processing.<\/p>\n

Better spatial cognition
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\nBediou, B., et al (2018).\u00a0Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and\u00a0<\/a>cognitive skills. Psychological Bulletin<\/em>, 44, 77-110 found that domains of top-down attention and spatial cognition were enhanced.<\/p>\n

Creativity.<\/u>
\nMoffatt (2017)\u00a0<\/a>found links between certain types of creativity including flexibility and the playing of games.<\/p>\n

Intelligence<\/u>
\nAthanasios V. Kokkinakis (2017)\u00a0Exploring the relationship between video game expertise and fluid intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

For further references to articles on\u00a0video games learning and intelligence try searching ERIC<\/a><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>However for others the playing of games causes harm<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the latest classification of mental health diseases IC 11 from the\u00a0World Health\u00a0<\/a>Organisation gaming is listed as an addiction.
\nThe\u00a0Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) 2016 update<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the\u00a0American Psychiatric Association<\/a>\u00a0(APA) also listed gaming as a disorder in a recent update.<\/p>\n

Search Pubmed to find further articles on the medical\/cognitive aspects of gaming.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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