article_snippet.sent: To conduct a study by Brown University in Rhode Island, Researchers at Brown University pitted nine frequent gamers against a control group of nine people who game rarely, if ever.
article_snippet.sent: people wanted to find out if gamers could overcome this interference better, compared to non-gamers.
article_snippet.sent: Non-gamers actually did worse on the first.
article_snippet.sent: the study also has a stark gender imbalance between the nearly all-male gamer group and the nearly all-female non-gamer group.
article_snippet.sent: By documenting these and other apparent cognitive differences between gamers and non-gamers, the field is discovering that there is more to video games than merely passing the time, lead author and graduate student Aaron Berard said.
article_snippet.sent: A lot of people still view video games as a time-wasting activity even though research is beginning to show A lot of people beneficial aspects,Aaron Berard said.