Professor Mark Campbell, Director of the Lero Esports Science Research Lab at University of Limerick, Ireland with Dr Adam Toth, both Lero at University of Limerick, Ireland. (IMAGE)

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Professor Mark Campbell, Director of the Lero Esports Science Research Lab at University of Limerick, Ireland with Dr Adam Toth, both Lero at University of Limerick, Ireland.

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A new study by a team at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, published in the British Journal of Psychology, found that regular gamers performed better on tasks measuring cognitive functions such as attention and memory. Pictured is main author Professor Mark Campbell, Director of the Lero Esports Science Resarch Lab at University of Limerick (UL) and corresponding author Dr Adam Toth, Lero, UL.

 

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