Playing for Words: Children with dyslexia have an easier time learning to read after playing action video games that don’t incorporate reading

Shooting silly-looking rabbits with a plunger gun in a video game called Rayman Raving Rabbids can improve the reading ability of dyslexic children, according to a new study publishing in the March 18 issue of Current Biology—despite the fact that the game contained no reading or linguistic components. The counterintuitive finding supports the idea that dyslexia is not only a disorder of linguistic centers of the brain, but may also involve areas that govern attention and motor skills.

Read the complete article from The Scientist (and find a link to the full text journal article) here: Playing for Words