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The impact of digital media on children's intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background

Published 11 May 2022

Sauce, B., Liebherr, M., Judd, N. et al.

  • Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Department of General Psychology: Cognition, University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
  • Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-11341-2

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Our most important finding was that Gaming positively impacted the amount of change in intelligence so that children who played more video games at 9-10 years showed the most gains in intelligence two years later. This was also true for Gaming in absolute values (not correcting for time spent video watching and socializing) and did not differ between boys and girls.