Exploring the relationship between video game expertise and fluid intelligence

Athanasios V Kokkinakis, Peter I Cowling, Anders Drachen, Alex R Wade

• Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
• 2Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom.

DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0186621

Published 15 Nov 2017

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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.