Educational computer games do not make anyone smarter

According to new research, it is impossible to develop any games mental capacity or raise the level of IQ. Everything that you can achieve while playing the game - to improve the skills of the game.

Before you make such conclusions, the scientists ten years have been studying the "beneficial effects" of educational games and companies like Cogmed, Lumosity, Jungle Memory and CogniFit released "trainers for the brain", intended for both children and adults.

In parallel, the skeptics conducted their investigations, and that their results:

In one recent study compared the effect of the implementation of the so-called "n-back", popular among the inhabitants of Silicon Valley, with effect from plasebo games and the lack of any games. In the experiment, attended by healthy young people. As a result, researchers from three different American universities have come to the conclusion that those who played the game, improve your game - nothing more. No effect on the mental capacity of the game did not have.

During another study, researchers attempted to replicate previously conducted by experiment that supposedly proved that some of the games contribute to the development of rolling intellect (ie the ability to perceive and remember new and solve the problems that people have never experienced), which could play an important role in professional activity. But ... and this time the optimistic findings have not been confirmed.

Finally, the authors of the so-called "meta-analysis", in which was made a synthesis review of 23 previous studies involving educational games, too, have come to the conclusion that computer games can make a man a master in the game, and if nothing more. < br />
Source: www.mixstuff.ru

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