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Study Indicates Gaming (and TV Viewing) Could Lead to Something

By pete_gallagher

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Playing videogames and watching television are linked with attention problems in kids, at least according to a study authored by Edward Swing, David Walsh, former head of the National Institute on Media and Family, and Iowa State University's Craig Anderson and Douglas Gentile.

Television and Video Game Exposure and the Development of Attention Problems (PDF) is published in the latest edition of Pediatrics and sampled 1,323 'middle childhood participants' across a 13-month session. A second sample of 210 adolescent and early adult participants was utilized as well.

The study began by offering, 'Many video games seem to share many features (eg, high excitement, rapid changes in focus) that have been identified as potentially relevant to the television association with attention problems, making a similar association between video game playing and attention problems plausible.'
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