Spatial skills are amongst the most important skills we have in our brains. It is responsible for motor behavior, track and manipulate objects. They also give individuals the ability to represent, organize, understand and navigate the environment. Once again, there is a theme in all the research articles I have found. Researchers keep wanting to find the difference between genders. In the article by Ian Spence and Jing Feng, they analyzed both genders and found both genders equally improved on their spatial abilities after playing games that are thought to boost spatial skills. An example of these games is Marble Madnedd, where the user guides a marble through many 3-D courses which include enemies and obstacle objects. There were fundamental processes observed by the researchers such as sensory proces, attentional process, visuomotor coordination and speed, mechanisms of learning, top-down control of lower level processing, and many others. There were also factors of motivation, emotion and gender differences. Overall, they found that video games indeed improve spatial skills through these processes.
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