A Review of Video Game Effects and Uses

Authors

• David Corso

Abstract

Video games are versatile in their form and function. Whether they’re training doctors or offsetting Alzheimer’s disease, video games can exercise both mental and physical features, train specific skills for a number of jobs, educate players about events and phenomenon in our world, research and understand natural human processes, and they can be designed for a number of other purposes. Multiple studies have demonstrated the effects of video games on physiological and cognitive levels—positive, negative, and everything in between. This paper identifies various physical and psychological effects that video games produce, and it suggests ways in which video games can be used as research and measurement tools, as prevention and treatment strategies, and as a way to facilitate education.

Recommended Citation

Corso, David (2014) "A Review of Video Game Effects and Uses," Caravel Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 3, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/caravel/vol3/iss1/1