Gaming has enormous applied potential in mental health, where healthcare services have traditionally struggled to engage young people (Patel, Flisher, Hetrick, & McGorry, 2007). The popularity of video games among young people has sparked scientific and public interest in their impact on daily functioning and well‐being. Applied Cognitive Psychology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. These preliminary results can inform interventions involving computer games to disrupt the development of maladaptive visual imagery, for example, intrusive memories of trauma. Findings suggest that Tetris game play involves both storage and processing resources within visuospatial WM. Consistent with the hypothesis that visuospatial WM resources support Tetris game play, there was a significant moderate positive relationship between Tetris scores and visuospatial WM performance but no association with other cognitive ability measures. In this study, young adults (N = 46) completed six standardized measures indexing verbal and non‐verbal reasoning, verbal and visuospatial short‐term memory, and verbal and visuospatial WM.
Whether or not Tetris performance is selectively associated with visuospatial WM remains to be tested. Recent experimental and clinical research has suggested that Tetris game play can disrupt maladaptive forms of mental imagery because Tetris competes for limited cognitive resources within visuospatial working memory (WM) that contribute to imagery.
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