February 10, 2006
Gamers Gots Better Brains?
If you consider multitasking to be important then, yes, gamers probably do have better brains:
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{...}A body of research suggests that playing video games provides benefits similar to bilingualism in exercising the mind. Just as people fluent in two languages learn to suppress one language while speaking the other, so too are gamers adept at shutting out distractions to swiftly switch attention between different tasks.A new study of 100 university undergraduates in Toronto has found that video gamers consistently outperform their non-playing peers in a series of tricky mental tests. If they also happened to be bilingual, they were unbeatable.{...}
Hmmmph.
Doesn't mean they have better social skills, though.
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Uh huh. Whatever. Yeah. Huh? Sorry, ... wasn't listening. Can ya repeat that? ... Damn, just missed the power pill!
(RE: Your remarks to Christina -- the upper Midwest's not all that bad in the winter, is it?)
Posted by: Bob at February 10, 2006 10:03 AM (yMzz+)
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Bob--uh, yeah it is.
Posted by: Kathy at February 10, 2006 10:12 AM (JeBdM)
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Kathy -- My oldest son and his sweet little bride are on the eighth month of their honeymoon in Ohio. He reports he still likes playing in the snow. (But then again, his sweety grew up there; she says she's ready for spring.)
Posted by: Bob at February 10, 2006 02:40 PM (yMzz+)
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