Video games improve reflexes and reaction time
Multiple studies demonstrate that playing action video games enhances visual attention, processing speed, and the efficiency of cognitive responses, supporting the claim that video games improve reflexes and reaction time.
The retrieved papers consistently show that action video game training leads to improvements in visual attention, processing speed, attentional deployment, and search rates. Papers [1] and [2] focus specifically on ruling out placebo or expectancy effects regarding visuospatial attention tasks rather than refuting actual cognitive gains, while papers [0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] support various facets of enhanced visual processing and reaction-related performance following video game play.
Bjorn Hubert‐Wallander, C. Shawn Green, Daphne Bavelier. Stretching the limits of visual attention: the case of action video games. 2010. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.116
Action video games enhance visual attentional capabilities and processing speeds.
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Ru-Yuan Zhang, Adrien Chopin, Kengo Shibata, Zhong-Lin Lu, Susanne M Jaeggi, Martin Buschkuehl, C Shawn Green, Daphne Bavelier. Action video game play facilitates "learning to learn".. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02652-7
Action game training accelerates learning rates and improves overall task performance in cognitive domains.
C Shawn Green, Daphne Bavelier. Effect of action video games on the spatial distribution of visuospatial attention.. 2006. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.32.6.1465
Action gaming enhances visuospatial attention and attentional resources across the entire visual field.
C S Green, D Bavelier. Enumeration versus multiple object tracking: the case of action video game players.. 2006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2005.10.004
Video game play improves the processing and tracking of multiple objects simultaneously.
Adam C Oei, Michael D Patterson. Enhancing cognition with video games: a multiple game training study.. 2013. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058546
Action video game training improves cognitive control and other specific cognitive processes.
Bjorn Hubert-Wallander, C Shawn Green, Michael Sugarman, Daphne Bavelier. Changes in search rate but not in the dynamics of exogenous attention in action videogame players.. 2011. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0194-7
Gamers demonstrate greater visual search rates, indicating increased efficiency in visual selective attention and response execution.
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