Studies: Video games can aid students, surgeons
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 14:21
in Psychology & Sociology
BOSTON (AP) -- Parents, don't put away those video games just yet - today's gamer may be tomorrow's top surgeon. Researchers who gathered in Boston for the American Psychological Association convention detailed a series of studies suggesting video games can be powerful learning tools - from increasing younger students' problem-solving potential to improving the suturing skills of laparoscopic surgeons....