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This study tests whether action video game training transfers to improvements in mathematical performance by comparing 24 adults who trained 25 hr and 40 hr with action versus nonaction games. Results show no significant gains in foundational number-processing and attentional control, but some improvement on standardized measures of complex mathematics. Recreational action gaming may weakly support complex math skills.","AERA Open  \nOctober-December 2017, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 1–13 DOI: 10. 1177/2332858417740857  \n© The Author(s) 2017. [http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nThe Impact of Action Video Game Training on Mathematical Abilities in  \nAdults  \nMelissa E. Libertus  \nAllison Liu  \nUniversity of Pittsburgh  \nOlga Pikul  \nUniversity of Rochester  \nTheodore Jacques  \nUniversity of California-Riverside  \nPedro Cardoso-Leite  \nUniversity of Geneva and University of Luxembourg  \nJustin Halberda  \nJohns Hopkins University  \nDaphne Bavelier  \nUniversity of Geneva  \nPlaying action video games has previously been linked to improvements in attentional control, the ability to choose what to attend and what to ignore that relies on a frontoparietal network of the brain. Here we asked whether action video game training would impact a range of mathematical abilities that rely on similar brain regions. Twenty-four adults completed extensive cognitive testing before, after 25 hr, and after 40 hr of video game training. Half of the participants trained on an action video game, the other half trained on a nonaction video game. Action video game training yielded no significant improvements in foundational number-processing skills and attentional control in this study but some improvements on standardized assessments of complex mathematics. Thus, although action video gameplay is clearly not an intervention of choice when considering mathematical skills, the present study suggests its use as a recreational activity may support, albeit weakly, complex mathematical skills.  \nKeywords: math abilities, videogame training, number processing, frontoparietal network  \nMatheMatics abilities are an important contributor to our well-being. Correlational studies have found that adults with poor math abilities tend to have issues finding full-time employment and earn less than adults with better math abilities (Parsons & Bynner, 2005; Rose & Betts, 2004) . In addition, physical and mental health issues are more prevalent in individuals with poor math abilities (Garcia-Retamero, Andrade, Sharit, & Ruiz, 2015), potentially due to lower economic standing as well as poor health care–related choices that may be due to an inability to fully understand the risks and benefits of various treatments, which are often expressed in probabilities and percentages (Reyna, Nelson, Han, & Dieckmann, 2009) . Thus, improving adults’ math abilities may hold the promise of ameliorating a range of issues that individuals with poor math abilities face.  \nAt the neural level, mathematical processes seem to consistently rely on a frontoparietal network (Ansari, 2008; Nieder & Dehaene, 2009). The intraparietal sulcus (IPS) is a fissure running the length of the parietal lobe (which is located at the top of the brain just behind primary motor and sensory cortices) roughly in an anterior-posterior (front-toback) manner. The IPS has been shown by various researchers tobe central to a wide range of numerical and mathematical processes, such as when people compare which of two numbers is the larger or solve novel arithmetic problems (see Arsalidou & Taylor, 2011, for a meta-analysis). Furthermore, greater prefrontal cortex activation during math tasks seems to be associated with greater task difficulty (Zhou et al., 2007), possibly reflecting greater reliance on working memory and attentional processes (Arsalidou & Taylor, 2011) .  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons  \nAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages ([https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/ope","cbCaijVFh7dE5ZNq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijVFh7dE5ZNq","pdf",717056,13,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Importance of adult math abilities\n## Neural mechanisms in math (frontoparietal network)\n# Study Rationale\n## Action game training and attentional control\n## Expected transfer to mathematical processes","[{\"question\":\"How was action video game training compared against a control condition?\",\"answer\":\"Twenty-four adults completed cognitive testing before training and after 25 hr and 40 hr. 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