Daphne Bavelier

Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer…

— Daphne Bavelier

Normally, improving contrast sensitivity means using glasses or surgery to correct the eye. But we've found that action video games train the…

— Daphne Bavelier

People who played action video games have better vision in the sort of conditions where there is not much contrast. It can…

— Daphne Bavelier

We know there are good sugars and bad sugars, and we don't discuss whether food in general is good or bad for…

— Daphne Bavelier

In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the…

— Daphne Bavelier

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…

— Daphne Bavelier

The average age of a gamer is 33 years old, not eight years old, and in fact, if we look at the…

— Daphne Bavelier

We need to go beyond saying, 'I know what these games do because I see my son playing them,' and try to…

— Daphne Bavelier

When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to…

— Daphne Bavelier

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed…

— Daphne Bavelier

'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly…

— Daphne Bavelier

Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of…

— Daphne Bavelier

You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects…

— Daphne Bavelier