Alani Pope
Mrs. Franey
April 2, 2026
Pick Up A Controller; How Video
Games Improve Your Brain
Since their very creation people, moms, and scientists have seemed to be against
video games. Yet in research conducted, video games don’t seem to be the problem
anymore. Video games can stimulate all areas of your brain to help improve cognitive
function, increase emotional resilience and feeling of accomplishment, and enhance
motor skills. Video games are sticking around for the better, and while video games
styles and objectives may change the a ect on your brain in a healthy way will not.
To start, video games stimulate your brain in every area, even though you may be
oblivious to it. When setting up a study to monitor cognitive activity in relation to
video games started studying children that volunteered and entered the experiment
starting at ages and , they examined data from nearly , participants. They
separated the children into two groups, those who played video games for three
hours per day or more; Playing video games for three hours or more exceeds the
American Academy of Pediatrics screen time guidelines , which recommends time
spent videogaming be limited to one or two hours per day for older children.
Chaarani, B. ( , October ). Video Gaming May Be Associated with Better Cognitive
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, Performance in Children. National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institutes of
Health. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/video-gaming-may-be-
associated-better-cognitive-performance-children says that in this study “The
researchers found that the children who reported playing video games for three or
more hours per day were faster and more accurate on both cognitive tasks than those
who never played. They also observed that the di erences in cognitive function
observed between the two groups was accompanied by di erences in brain activity.
Functional MRI brain imaging analyses found that children who played video games
for three or more hours per day showed higher brain activity in regions of the brain
associated with attention and memory than did those who never played. At the same
time, those children who played at least three hours of videogames per day showed
more brain activity in frontal brain regions that are associated with more cognitively
demanding tasks and less brain activity in brain regions related to vision.” This proves
the cognitive enhancement that is shown to come from playing video games. Yet,
there are many di erent parts of the brain involved in videogaming and certain games
can engage di erent parts of your brain more than others. https://
health.clevelandclinic.org/are-video-games-good-for-you , explains it very well “…
building simulators like City Skylines or Civilization VII. Those require strategy and
critical thinking. And when it comes to games like Wordle, our brains face a di erent
set of challenges related to language and memory.” This elaborates on the internal
workings of video games and certain parts of your brain, showing that in research
even though a lot of the bar in is engaged sometimes more parts are than others.
Though it may seem impossible videogaming can actually increase your brain’s grey
matter, Cleveland Clinic. ( , December ). Are Video Games Good for You? Cleveland
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Mrs. Franey
April 2, 2026
Pick Up A Controller; How Video
Games Improve Your Brain
Since their very creation people, moms, and scientists have seemed to be against
video games. Yet in research conducted, video games don’t seem to be the problem
anymore. Video games can stimulate all areas of your brain to help improve cognitive
function, increase emotional resilience and feeling of accomplishment, and enhance
motor skills. Video games are sticking around for the better, and while video games
styles and objectives may change the a ect on your brain in a healthy way will not.
To start, video games stimulate your brain in every area, even though you may be
oblivious to it. When setting up a study to monitor cognitive activity in relation to
video games started studying children that volunteered and entered the experiment
starting at ages and , they examined data from nearly , participants. They
separated the children into two groups, those who played video games for three
hours per day or more; Playing video games for three hours or more exceeds the
American Academy of Pediatrics screen time guidelines , which recommends time
spent videogaming be limited to one or two hours per day for older children.
Chaarani, B. ( , October ). Video Gaming May Be Associated with Better Cognitive
ESSAY TITLE 1
2022
9 10 24 ff 2 000
, Performance in Children. National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institutes of
Health. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/video-gaming-may-be-
associated-better-cognitive-performance-children says that in this study “The
researchers found that the children who reported playing video games for three or
more hours per day were faster and more accurate on both cognitive tasks than those
who never played. They also observed that the di erences in cognitive function
observed between the two groups was accompanied by di erences in brain activity.
Functional MRI brain imaging analyses found that children who played video games
for three or more hours per day showed higher brain activity in regions of the brain
associated with attention and memory than did those who never played. At the same
time, those children who played at least three hours of videogames per day showed
more brain activity in frontal brain regions that are associated with more cognitively
demanding tasks and less brain activity in brain regions related to vision.” This proves
the cognitive enhancement that is shown to come from playing video games. Yet,
there are many di erent parts of the brain involved in videogaming and certain games
can engage di erent parts of your brain more than others. https://
health.clevelandclinic.org/are-video-games-good-for-you , explains it very well “…
building simulators like City Skylines or Civilization VII. Those require strategy and
critical thinking. And when it comes to games like Wordle, our brains face a di erent
set of challenges related to language and memory.” This elaborates on the internal
workings of video games and certain parts of your brain, showing that in research
even though a lot of the bar in is engaged sometimes more parts are than others.
Though it may seem impossible videogaming can actually increase your brain’s grey
matter, Cleveland Clinic. ( , December ). Are Video Games Good for You? Cleveland
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