Cognitive Benefits of Playing Video Games

Cognitive Benefits of Playing Video Games

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 4, Episode 50 , Segment 3

Technology, Materialistic Kids, Benefits of Video Games

Episode: Technology, Materialistic Kids, Benefits of Video Games

  • Mar 19, 2015 1:00 pm
  • 33:52 mins

(1:42:36)  Dr. Gray received his undergraduate from Columbia University and Ph.D. in biological sciences from Rockefeller University and is the author of the recently published books Free to Learn and Psychology. Dr. Peter Gray is a research professor at Boston College whose current research and writing focus primarily on children's natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play. He says that, “\[video] games may help children develop logical, literary, executive, and even social skills.”

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