Frequent video gamers performed on cognitive tests like non-gamers that were ~13.7 years younger
Sep 13, 2026 · 8:00 PM UTC
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@BrandonLuuMD The kind of gaming probably matters as much as the hours.
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@BrandonLuuMDa cool study where adults (60–85) did 12 hrs of training on a specially designed game, and then outperformed untrained people in their 20s on its multitasking measure
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@BrandonLuuMD Need some context here...
An 86 year old performing like a 72.3 year old is great! A 23 year old performing like a 9.3 year old is bad.
An 86 year old performing like a 72.3 year old is great! A 23 year old performing like a 9.3 year old is bad.
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@BrandonLuuMD Just the news I needed to hear before GTA 6
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@BrandonLuuMD Boy they really jump from association to causation.
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@BrandonLuuMDI know a person who plays games 6-8 hours a day and his attention has become incredibly narrow, and generally have severely lessened general cognitive abilities from what I can tell
(just my subjective observations and not an observation about people who play in moderation)
(just my subjective observations and not an observation about people who play in moderation)
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@BrandonLuuMD While the study didn’t officially mention IQ the best estimates from z-scores are ~5 IQ points for frequent gamers, and ~2 points for infrequent gamers.
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@BrandonLuuMD Heh, so they act like 4 year olds?
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@BrandonLuuMD Darktide, Elden Ring (I'm bad at this one), Helldivers, et al FTW
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@BrandonLuuMD Don’t let my teenage son see this article because he will rub it in my face every single day that I tell him to get off.
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@BrandonLuuMD Heh, and the woke left still wants to ban video games despite this. SAD!!
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@BrandonLuuMD Oh look, a random study with no methodology section. It must be true. Let’s sit on our assess and stare at a screen without feeling bad about wasting our precious lives to make money for someone else
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@BrandonLuuMD GTA 6 has major health benefits I guess lol 😂
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@BrandonLuuMD If video games can have this effect on your cognitive abilities, just imagine what a more dynamic game like poker can do...
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@BrandonLuuMD You said that in a weird way. Generally a more aged brain is a bad thing.
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I was helping a family friend with a yard work project recently, and we rented a skid loader from Home Depot to move several tons of dirt.
It was my first time ever using a piece of heavy construction equipment, so I was a little unsure how it would go.
I hopped in, and it took me about 5 minutes to become proficient at all of the different travel/boom/scooper movements, and crush the project in a fraction of the time we were expecting.
I 100% credit my fast learning on things like this to my early-life video game career.
When we told our parents as kids, "It's good for my eye-hand coordination, mom!" back in the day, we were mostly joking...but it turns out we were 100% correct.
It's also no coincidence that a huge percentage of the most advanced autistic pattern-recognizers I know today are current/former gamers.
Connecting hand inputs to quickly-changing screen stimulus builds unique neural connections in rapid fashion, which would otherwise take years to sharpen using more primitive means.
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@BrandonLuuMD @grok where is the link for this paper?
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