Different studies suggest that the moderate practice of action video games , especially those that require making decisions quickly, can improve the visual acuity of users, increase their concentration and even enhance their short-term memory. Now, Daphne Bavelier, an expert in cognitive science at the University of Rochester, in New York, points out that, in addition, it has a beneficial effect on our ability to learn .

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Bavelier and his colleagues maintain that our brain is constantly trying to anticipate what will happen to us next , either while listening to a conversation, driving or even if we carry out a delicate task, like a surgical intervention.

"For this, our brains build templates of the world," he says. "The tighter these are, the better our performance will be. Now we know that action video games encourage those models to be better. "

Bavelier emphasizes that this phenomenon is more pronounced among users of this type of titles than among other games and that, in fact, this improvement is maintained over time. Thus, the volunteers who participated in the trial still had a greater learning capacity than the control group several months after participating in the trial.

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