Playing Video Games

• • Playing video games makes many different complex cognitive and motor demands
• • Kuhn compared control group with video game training group that was trained for 2 months for at least 30 minutes per day on super mario - found significant increase in grey matter in various brain areas including the cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum.
• • Video game training resulted in new synaptic connections in brain areas involved in spatial navigation and strategic planning - skills important in playing the game successfully.