Video games boost visual skills - briefly
(hx) 11:49 PM CEST - May,28 2003
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According to
this article at NewSciencist, a new study has revealed that computer game
players score off the charts in several standard vision tests, suggesting
the games are not the utter waste of time some think. Furthermore, the visual
skills of non-gamers improve dramatically after just 10 hours of playing action
games. Another similar article can be found at
SFGate.com. Here is a taster:
In the Rochester study, 16 men ages 18 to 23 took a series of tests that measured their ability to locate the position of a blinking object, count the number of simultaneous objects on a screen and pick out the color of an alphabet letter. Those who played video games for the previous six months performed better in all those tests than those who did not.
In a separate test, a group of 17 who never played video games were trained to play the military game "Medal of Honor" and the puzzle game "Tetris." After playing for 10 days, those who learned "Medal of Honor" scored better on the performance tests than those who didn't.
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