Communications Biology (Oct 2021)

Action video game play facilitates “learning to learn”

  • Ru-Yuan Zhang,
  • Adrien Chopin,
  • Kengo Shibata,
  • Zhong-Lin Lu,
  • Susanne M. Jaeggi,
  • Martin Buschkuehl,
  • C. Shawn Green,
  • Daphne Bavelier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02652-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Zhang et al. present evidence that action video games facilitate learning to learn, the logic being that the rate of learning in new tasks can be increased via certain activities. Compared to a control group, action video game players exhibit a faster learning rate in both perceptual and working memory tasks.