Interesting... Wonder what my mom would have thought of this article:
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml...toryID=2839248
"Whether it's Spiderman or Grand Theft Auto 3 or others, the fast-moving action of the games seems to improve a range of visual skills.
"Although video-game playing may seem to be rather mindless, it is capable of radically altering visual attentional processing," Daphne Bavelier, of the University of Rochester in New York, said in a letter to the science journal Nature.
In four experiments Bavelier and her colleague C. Shawn Green discovered that people who played video games several times a week for six months could monitor complex visual information more easily than non-game players.
But when the researchers gave novices 10 hours of training on the game Medal of Honor, they improved their visual processing skills.
"By forcing players to simultaneously juggle a number of varied tasks (detect new enemies, track existing enemies and avoid getting hurt, among others) action-video-game playing pushes the limits of three rather different aspects of visual attention," Bavelier said."
Here is another article:
http://msnbc.com/news/919010.asp?0dm=C11MT
I didn't see this in any thread, so if I missed it, feel free to wipe the thread.
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