Suzete Soares, Louíse Viecili Hoffmeister, Maria de Fátima Fernandes, Adriana Henriques, Andreia Costa
The Use of Digital Technologies in the Promotion of Health Literacy and Empowerment of Informal Caregivers: Scoping Review
JMIR aging
although research linked video gaming subsequent increases aggressive behavior children accounting prior aggression findings divided respect video gamings association cognitive skills examine association video gaming cognition children using data adolescent brain cognitive development abcd study casecontrol study cognitive performance blood oxygen leveldependent bold signal compared video gamers vgs nonvideo gamers nvgs response inhibition working memory using taskbased functional magnetic resonance imaging fmri large data set 9 10yearold children abcd study good control demographic behavioral psychiatric confounding effects sample baseline assessment abcd 201 release 2019 largely recruited across 21 sites us public private charter elementary schools using population neuroscience approach recruitment aiming mirror demographic variation us population children valid neuroimaging behavioral data included exclusions included common mri contraindications history major neurologic disorders history traumatic brain injury participants completed selfreported screen time survey including item asking children report time specifically spent video gaming fmri tasks performed participants video gaming time cognitive performance bold signal assessed nback stop signal tasks fmri collected data analyzed october 2019 october 2020 total 2217 children mean sd age 991 062 years 1399 631 female participated study final sample used stop signal task analyses consisted 1128 nvgs 0 gaming hours per week 679 vgs played least 21 hours per week final sample used nback analyses consisted 1278 nvgs never played video games 0 hours per week gaming 800 vgs played least 21 hours per week vgs performed better fmri tasks compared nvgs nonparametric analyses fmri data demonstrated greater bold signal vgs precuneus inhibitory control working memory smaller bold signal observed vgs parts occipital cortex calcarine sulcus larger bold signal cingulate middle frontal gyri precuneus study compared nvgs vgs found exhibit better cognitive performance involving response inhibition working memory well altered bold signal key regions cortex responsible visual attention memory processing findings consistent videogaming improving cognitive abilities involve response inhibition working memory altering underlying cortical pathways