{"id":240407,"date":"2026-07-07T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/video-games-might-modestly-sharpen-your-memory-and-other-cognitive-skills-review-suggests"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:22:00","slug":"video-games-might-modestly-sharpen-your-memory-and-other-cognitive-skills-review-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/video-games-might-modestly-sharpen-your-memory-and-other-cognitive-skills-review-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Video games might modestly sharpen your memory and other cognitive skills, review suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/video-games-might-modestly-sharpen-your-memory-and-other-cognitive-skills-review-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because video games are a regular part of many people\u2019s everyday lives, researchers have spent a lot of time trying to determine whether they are beneficial or detrimental to brain health. A new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S000169182600911X?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Acta Psychologica<\/i>, has compiled 20 years of research on how video games affect cognitive abilities into a single systematic review and meta-analysis. This comprehensive study indicates that video games may provide some helpful cognitive benefits to gamers.<\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, it might seem like video games fall into the \u201cbrain rot\u201d category of entertainment, similar to endless social media scrolling or watching television. Yet most gamers would agree that video games involve at least some degree of skill, and many researchers would agree, too.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the interactive nature of video games has positioned them as a potential tool for cognitive training, helping to exercise core mental skills like memory, attention, self-control, spatial reasoning and broader problem-solving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because video games are a regular part of many people\u2019s everyday lives, researchers have spent a lot of time trying to determine whether they are beneficial or detrimental to brain health. A new study, published in Acta Psychologica, has compiled 20 years of research on how video games affect cognitive abilities into a single systematic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}