AIMAN INAM

WASHINGTON D.C: The craze of playing video games is sweeping around the world like wildfire. From kids to oldies, everyone seems to be hooked up with their play stations and wii-games. Not to mention that the penetration of Smartphones has also made it easier to play different sorts of alluring games.

In such, a latest research has ascertained that those kids, who tend to play video games and Legos, have been reported with having extraordinary dexterities, resulting into better academic performance.

Also, they tend to score high in the subjects such as science, technology, engineering and math.

Harboring on the subject, the research author Anne Gold from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in the US held that parents should provide their preschoolers with demanding toys and videogames so as to boost their educational skills.

So as to prove this, investigators have run through the records of around hundreds of undergraduate students. All of them have been assessed via spatial-knowledge test.

Their ramifications revealed that students scored up to 75 percent in a written, spatial-knowledge assessment. Also, they discovered a huge spread in students (particularly those who play with toys and video games) spatial aptitudes.

It is pertinent to mention here that majority of people tend to play video games so as to thwart stress and anger. Also, it has been proved beneficial when it comes to cure depression.

Their up shots have been detailed in the journal Geosphere.