A study by the Spanish institution Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) revealed that playing video games during childhood can improve your working memory later in life, the last one series of studies suggesting that playing To video games has measurable effects on the brain. Video games are still a relatively new media, but scientists have studied the impact of our preferred hobby with more and more interesting results. Many games already use many psychological tools as part of their design philosophy to allow us to continue playing, especially in the way they increase in difficulty, offering a constant feeling of accomplishment. As Dr. Marc Palaus, video games are a perfect recipe for strengthening our cognitive abilities, almost without we realizing it. This recent study, published in the human neuroscience, tested people who had been passionate players in their childhood and those who had not done so, by submitting them to a number of challenges based on memory. The researchers ...