Is Playing Video Games Related to Cognitive Abilities?

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Psychology Science

• Publication date

  2015-04-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/0956797615570367PMID 25896420
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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