You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and attention. — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer is bad… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
Normally, improving contrast sensitivity means using glasses or surgery to correct the eye. But we've found that action video games train the brain to… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
People who played action video games have better vision in the sort of conditions where there is not much contrast. It can make all… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
We know there are good sugars and bad sugars, and we don't discuss whether food in general is good or bad for us. We… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the better the… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand,… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
The average age of a gamer is 33 years old, not eight years old, and in fact, if we look at the projected demographics… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
We need to go beyond saying, 'I know what these games do because I see my son playing them,' and try to understand the… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits,… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly faces of… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield,… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
