US Navy reports that video games may improve soldiers capabilities

Improving cognitive skills is now creating better soldiers, finds a new US navy research.
The cognitive effects of certain video-game-style activities are not only impressive but can last a couple of years, a researcher for the Navy recently explained.

If gamers don’t want to believe that video games have an effect on them — at least any effect that will cause them to do antisocial things — will they accept research that suggests brain games make their work better?
Here’s Ray Perez, program officer for the Office of Naval Research’s warfighter performance department:
“We have discovered that video game players perform 10 to 20 percent higher in terms of perceptual and cognitive ability than normal people that are non-game players…”

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