June 6, 2010

Put Video Games to Good Use

Putting Video Games to Good Use 1

Landov

First-person shooter games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 are especially capable of teaching cognitive tasks that are important for careers as varied as architecture and surgery.

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Landov

First-person shooter games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 are especially capable of teaching cognitive tasks that are important for careers as varied as architecture and surgery.

By Christopher J. Ferguson

On April 26 the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving California's efforts to ban the sale of "violent" video games to minors. The ban had been struck down by a federal appeals court on the basis of both constitutional issues and skepticism about research purporting to link violent games to harm in youth. "None of the research establishes or suggests a causal link between minors playing violent video games and actual psychological or neurological harm, and inferences to that