To play or not to play, this is the problem!

The pros and cons of children playing video games

Alexiei Dingli
DataSeries
Published in
5 min readOct 28, 2020

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Photo by Patrik Larsson on Unsplash

Play is an essential activity in the development of many young animals. Humans too spend most of their initial years playing. A 2020 study commissioned by Mattel Inc. showed that doll play activated regions within the brains associated with social information processing and empathy. It means that children…

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Alexiei Dingli
DataSeries

Professor of #AI at @uniofmalta, @AIMalta, Co-organiser at #GDGMalta