24 September, 2010

How Video Games Reorganize Your Brain

Kotaku found some interesting info on how video games are affecting our brain:
"It is no secret that video games aid players with their hand-eye coordination.
A new study shows that playing video games extensively reorganizes how the brain handles difficult visuomotor tasks.
Gaming pundits have been pulling out the eye-hand coordination card for as long there have been video games. Seeing things is easy. Manipulating things with one's hands is simple. Watching one thing while manipulating something else with one's hands is the tricky bit. Since gamers spend a great deal of time watching a screen while manipulating a controller, their eye-hand coordination improves"
You can read the rest of the article here.

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