KMGH: Study Shows Video Games May Boost Kids' Intelligence

A new study published in the Journal of Scientific Reports suggests gaming can improve things like communication, strategizing and decision-making.

For a long time, the prevailing thought about video games is they rot people's minds and have the potential to promote violence, but a new study, published in the Journal of Scientific Reports, shows video games might give kids an intellectual boost.

The study took 5,000 kids and found the ones that played more than the average hour of video games each day wound up with higher intelligence scores than the ones who spent less time playing games.

“I actually use [video games] specifically in class,” said Daniel Melleno, a professor of history at the University of Denver. “The whole point of [the games I use in class] is to take a culture and distill it into the perfect representation of a culture.”