Meta-Analysis of Action Video Game Impacts on Perceptual, Attentional, and Cognitive Skills
Bediou, Adams, Mayer, Tipton, Green & Bavelier
Key finding
Action gaming produces consistent, durable improvements in top-down attention, cognitive flexibility, and spatial cognition — skills that transfer directly to academic and professional performance.
Playing Tetris in the hours following a traumatic experience significantly reduces the frequency of intrusive flashback memories — the same mechanism implicated in PTSD symptoms.
Randomised controlled experimental study37 participants exposed to trauma film