N.A. Nikishina

Availability of computer technologies and usage expansion of it-s possibilities both in professional and in a leisure sphere put a purpose in front of researchers: to learn the psychological and psy-chophysiological consequences of the long-term unproductive activity forms in a cyberspace, the example of which is playing activity. An experimental group (cybergamers) consisted of college students, playing computer games during the last 6 years on the average for 6-7 hours a day. The research results of efficiency of mnemonic abilities have revealed significant distinctions between the experimental and the control groups on efficiency of all memory levels. Especially it should be noted that distinctions between experimental and control groups were increased as far as complication of the material produced for memorizing. The efficiency of logical memory of active cyberplayers is meaningfully below, than for the representatives of the control group. These results allow to consider cyberplaying activity as a factor, affecting on efficiency of display of not operating, but regulative mechanisms of memory. Examinees, playing the computer for 6-7 hours a day, characterized by a lower efficiency of memory and have a greater amount of complaints about their mental condition, showing up in restlessness, crabbiness, weakness of volitional processes and difficulties of conduct control as compared to the coevals. Cyberplayers show the weakness of activating cognitive processes, that causes inability to maintain the protracted mental loading. The conducted research let-s to suppose that an excessive infatuation for computer games de-forms cognitive capabilities and results in the decline of physiological possibilities of brain.