Playing Action Video Games Improves Hand-Eye Coordination

Action gamers demonstrate better lane-keeping and visuomotor-control skills than non-action gamers.

• Training with action video games for 5 or 10 hours led to significant improvements in visuomotor control for non-action gamers.
• Non-action gamers did not show improvement in visuomotor control after playing nonaction video games.
• Different action video games may have varying effects on the sensorimotor system involved in visuomotor control.
• Action gaming is associated with enhanced responsiveness of the sensorimotor system to input error signals.
• These findings suggest that action video games could serve as effective training tools for tasks like driving.

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