What games (card/board/video) provide a specific cognitive or therapeutic benefit or specific skill that you know of? (lemmy.world)

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Tetris

Attenuates or reduces trauma and potentially eases the severity where its already happened

Seems to promote geometric and analytic thinking irl

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of video games help with reaction time and peripheral vision. I haven’t seen any studies, but it would be interesting to know if regular video game players have better driving and accident avoidance skills.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Have you seen GTA players?

/joke

[-] mindrover@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I have definitely seen studies saying that people who play video games are better surgeons. Surgeons who don't play video games take longer to develop their fine motor coordination to the same level of competence.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Surgeons sometimes claim students who play video games tend to perform much better off the bat than non gamers so there‘s that. I remember an interview a while ago where one claimed he always asks the gamers among the students to demonstrate a technique for the class first because of that.

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