Brain sciences
Current Video Gaming Is Associated with Visual-Psychomotor Efficiency and Visuomotor Coordination in Adolescents
By Załęski G, Horoszkiewicz K and Kopańska M.
Abstract
Background/objectives
Video gaming places repeated demands on rapid visual information processing, response selection, and visuomotor coordination. However, it remains unclear whether current gaming in adolescence is associated with broadly enhanced cognitive performance or with selective differences in visual-psychomotor functioning. This study examined associations between current video gaming and visual-psychomotor efficiency, visuomotor coordination, visual search, perceptual performance, and sequential-executive processing in adolescents.
Methods
This exploratory secondary cross-sectional reanalysis used an existing dataset of 120 adolescents aged 14-16 years (60 girls, 60 boys), including 92 current and 28 non-current players. Five principal outcomes were analysed using age- and sex-adjusted regression, HC3 standard errors, and Benjamini-Hochberg correction. Sensitivity analyses examined girls, school membership, and all 121 source records.