The influence of computer games on the cognitive abilities
Abstract
Examinees, playing the computer for 3 hours a day, are characterized by a lower
efficiency of memory and have a greater amount of complaints about their mental condition,
showing up in restlessness, crabbiness, weakness of volitional processes and difficulties of conduct
control as compared to the coevals. Cyber players show the weakness of activating cognitive
processes that causes inability to maintain the protracted mental loading. The conducted
research proves that an excessive computer games infatuation deforms cognitive capabilities
and results in the decline of brain physiological capabilities.
efficiency of memory and have a greater amount of complaints about their mental condition,
showing up in restlessness, crabbiness, weakness of volitional processes and difficulties of conduct
control as compared to the coevals. Cyber players show the weakness of activating cognitive
processes that causes inability to maintain the protracted mental loading. The conducted
research proves that an excessive computer games infatuation deforms cognitive capabilities
and results in the decline of brain physiological capabilities.
About the Authors
Илья Медведев
Курский институт социального образования
(филиал) РГСУ
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Нина Никишина
Курский институт социального образования
(филиал) РГСУ
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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