Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): Children who play video games tend to be more creative than their counterparts who don't, a new study has revealed.
The new research by Michigan State University scholars took into consideration nearly 500 12-year-olds and assessed how often the students used different forms of technology and gauged their creativity with the widely used Torrance Test of Creativity-Figural.
It was found that regardless of gender, race or type of game, the more kids played video games, the more creative they were in tasks such as drawing pictures and writing stories. In contrast, use of cell phones, the Internet and computers (other than for video games) was unrelated to creativity.
Linda Jackson, professor of psychology and lead researcher on the project, said the study appears to be the first evidence-based demonstration of a relationship between technology use and creativity.
The MSU findings should motivate game designers to identify the aspects of video game activity that are responsible for the creative effects, Jackson said.
"Once they do that, video games can be designed to optimize the development of creativity while retaining their entertainment values such that a new generation of video games will blur the distinction between education and entertainment," Jackson said.
The study has been published online in the research journal Computers in Human Behavior. (ANI)
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