10 minutes of video gaming everyday may enhance esport skills: Study

Washington: A new study has found that video gamers can significantly improve their esport skills by training for just 10 minutes a day. The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘Computers in Human Behavior’.
Researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and the University of Limerick (UL) led the research.
The study also found that novice gamers benefited most when they wore a custom headset delivering transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for 20 minutes before training sessions.
Dr Mark Campbell, director of Lero’s Esports Science Research Lab (ESRL) and senior lecturer in sports psychology at UL, said their work showed that neurostimulation could accelerate motor performance improvements specifically in novice esports participants and that this effect was confined to more complex sensory-motor actions.
“One of the original and most prominent esports over the past 20 years has been the first-person shooter (FPS) game, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). We asked participants to shoot and eliminate enemy targets as quickly and accurately as possible during their training sessions in the study,” added researcher Dr Adam Toth.
Participants wore a custom headset (HALO Neuroscience™) designed to deliver transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). However, some received no stimulation, others just a ‘sham’ treatment, while the remainder received a 20-minute exposure.