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Cognitive skills can be enhanced through repetition of puzzles, memory games, spatial abilities and attention control.[98][100][104] Most video games present opportunities to use these skills with the ability to try multiple times even after failure. Many of these skills can be translated to reality and problem solving. This allows the player to learn from mistakes and fully understand how and why a solution to a problem may work. Some researchers believe that continual exposure to challenges may lead players to develop greater persistence over time after a study was shown that frequent players spent more time on puzzles in task that did not involve video games.[99][100] Although players were shown to spend more time on puzzles, much of that could have been due to the positive effects of problem solving in games, which involve forming strategy and weighing option before testing a solution.[98] Representatives of Game Academy claim that such games as Civilization, Total War, or X-Com, where strategy and resource management are key, help players to develop skills that are of great use to managers. Also, they found out that IT workers play unusual puzzle games like Portal or tower defense games like Defense Grid more often than specialists from other fields.[105] In a study that followed students through school, students that played video games showed higher levels of problem solving than students who did not.[99] This contradicts the previous study in that higher success rate was seen in video game players. Time being a factor for problem solving led to different conclusions in the different studies. See video game controversies for more.

'''Video games at an early age help children develop digital literacy to understand how technology functions according to JRTE Vol 40, Issue 1, develops critical reading and writing skills throughout various digital devices. This provides training within children on how to functionalize with different digital devices with gaming.