While we can't say for sure that videogames, as your grandmother insists, do indeed rot your brain, thanks to research conducted at a variety of Universities around the States we know that better gamers tend to have more gray matter than others -- at least in certain areas. Kirk Erickson, Ann Graybiel, Arthur Kramer, and Walter Boot worked together to form a study in which 39 participants' brains were scanned before those subjects were asked to play a game called Space Fortress (which looks a little like an Atari-era
Geometry Wars). Players with larger nucleus accumbens did better learning the game early on, while those with larger caudate nucleus and putamen did better at playing with distractions. There was no sign that playing games actually increased the size of those areas of the brains, meaning some people are just born with a
Power Glove on -- and that it's only a matter of time before MRIs replace aptitude tests.
posted January 21st 2010 7:19AM
In Korea studies how that games have the same effects as drugs if played too often :(
great this study is going to be quoted for the rest of our lives, twisted to mean video games are GOOD for kids...
Its important to note that the game they used was like Geometry Wars. I don't think any scientific study would show that the 14 year olds who call everybody gay and use the n-word left and right in MW2 or Left for Dead have bigger brains.
Isn't that the logic is reversed?
A = Bigger Brain, Smart
B = Better at video games.
If A then B, but not B then A.
Great information
I wonder if porn makes your brain grow too....
Is that an USB connection in the middle of the brain?
"Players with larger nucleus accumbens did better learning the game early on, while those with larger caudate nucleus and putamen did better at playing with distractions."
Are they sure it wasn't really just swollen and infected?
interesting. Gamers have bigger brains.
Although I would postulate that in that big brain, only a few cells actually function. Evidence by going to any gaming forum.The only other group to challenge them in limited brain cell usage are Apple fanbois.
Research= flawed
hardcore gamers- 2 Nerds- 1