Action video game playing impacts occupational screening for high-stakes professionals (opens in new tab)

Action video game playing has been linked with enhanced cognitive and perceptual abilities measured via a variety of basic psychological lab tests. However, much less work has examined such relations in the context of measures with direct real-world workplace relevance. Here we examined the performance of male United States military personnel on a psychomotor task battery, part of an official selection test designed to assess aptitude for military aviation. We found that action video game pla...