Between 5 and 10% of the population suffers from dyslexia, the reading disorder that prevents a correct understanding of the text and the sensory signals that surround them. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford has produced a study in which it is stated that action video games are capable of improving the reading (dyslexia) and writing (dysgraphia) abilities of people suffering from these disorders. The study has been published in the journal Current Biology .
To reach this conclusion, the team conducted an experiment with 17 dyslexic people and 19 without this disorder , all of them with an average age of 21 years. The volunteers were asked to press a button as quickly as they heard a sound, saw a flash, or located both stimuli at the same time. After analysis of the results, the response to sound and flash together was faster than the response to only one of the stimuli individually. In fact, volunteers diagnosed with dyslexia were especially slow to press the button if a light was immediately followed by a sound.
According to the researchers, these types of games teach the individual to manage multiple tasks at the same time , generating an intrinsic benefit in people who find it difficult to change their attention from one element to another quickly.
