Video games narrow visual-spatial (Gv) gender gap

Thanks to the ENL blog for drawing our attention to a new article in one of my favorite journals (Psychological Science) that suggests that playing today's video games may help reduce probably the most significant remaining gender difference in cognitive abilities...namely...visual-spatial abilities, especially visual rotation (Gv-SR; Vz)

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