Not Garena Free Fire, BGMI, PUBG, but action video games are good for you!
A new study has found that reading can be improved with an action video game. The findings of the study were published in the journal 'Nature Human Behaviour'. And no, it does not mean playing Garena Free Fire, BGMI (Battlegrounds Mobile India), PUBG, Fortnite or others like them, but actually, some action video games are good for children and enhance learning. Decoding letters into sound is a key point in learning to read but is not enough to master it. "Reading calls upon several other essential mechanisms that we don't necessarily think about, such as knowing how to move our eyes on the page or how to use our working memory to link words together in a coherent sentence," points out Daphne Bavelier, a professor in the Psychology Section of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE) at the UNIGE.
"These other skills, such as vision, the deployment of attention, working memory, and cognitive flexibility, are known to be improved by action video games", explains Angela Pasqualotto, first author of this study, which is based on her PhD thesis at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento under the direction of Professors Venuti and De Angeli.
To make a point with this in mind, a video game was designed that combines action video games with mini-games that train different executive functions, such as working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility, functions that are called upon during reading. "The universe of this game is an alternative world in which the child, accompanied by his Raku, a flying creature, must carry out different missions to save planets and progress in the game", Angela Pasqualotto adds.
The idea is to reproduce the components of an action game,
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