Understanding Improved Psychomotor Skills Obtained by Playing Video Games

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Today’s gamers develop enhanced psychomotor skills as a result of repeated experience playing videogames with controllers and mice. Multiple credible studies have shown a correlation between video game experience and an increased ability to learn laparoscopic surgery techniques, due to an improvement in psychomotor skills. However, there is conflicting research on how this experience translates into actual ability as a surgeon. By measuring psychomotor skills in an unbiased way, I hope to correlate a player’s experience in a particular Genre of Interactivity with the psychomotor skills that have been developed, and further understand the extent to which these skills transfer to a laparoscopic surgery environmenthttps://www.facebook.com/events/1476807949251076/ Read More