Quick Look: Can Playing World of Warcraft Make You Smarter?

Tina Barseghian

Mar 1, 2012

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Source: Latimes

World of Warcraft, the world's most popular multiplayer role-playing game, can definitely help you kill time, but can it also make your brain work better if you are of relatively advanced age? That was the suspicion of Anne McLaughlin and Jason Allaire, psychology professors at North Carolina State University.

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