Unlike other popular brands from the 1980s, Super Mario has endured, with more iterations of the game offered continually. Like other forms of video games, Super Mario commands various cognitive and motor skills, thus contributing to brain plasticity.

Super Mario has inspired a corpus of psychology research. Here are seven interesting findings from studies involving everyone’s favorite mustachioed plumber.

The authors suggested that the video game training could be used to counteract known risk factors for mental disease, such as a........

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