Can Computer Games help Improve Reaction Times?
Kids, especially boys, love computer games but they have a really bad reputation for increasing aggressive and anti-social behaviour, contributing to childhood obesity and stunting kids’ ability to socially interact. Over-use of computer games (or indeed any single activity) can create developmental problems and even addictions, but when usage is controlled there is substantial evidence to suggest that computer games and games consoles can have a positive impact on our children’s learning skills Improved Reaction Times Your reaction time is the time that elapses between your brain receiving a sensory stimulus, whether it’s an image, a noise or a touch, and processing a reaction to it. Heightened reactions improve our motor skills and our decision making processes. In children, a nursery school study showed that the children with regular experience of playing computer or video games demonstrated much better average reaction times than non-players when asked to identify different colours
