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05-29-2003, 01:04 PM
Playing Video Games Not So Mindless After All
LONDON (Reuters) - Hours spent playing action video games may not be as mindless as many parents think.
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.
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Colonel
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05-29-2003, 01:12 PM
It's on the front page....
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05-29-2003, 01:19 PM
Dammit people are posting this EVERYWHERE!
IT'S NOT NEW PEOPLE THEY HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR YEARS!
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05-29-2003, 01:27 PM
I knew this lol, I figured it out myself.
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Senior Member
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Location: Heading towards my couch for a free lap dance
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05-29-2003, 04:36 PM
This is why I own my friends in thumb wrestling.
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05-29-2003, 04:38 PM
I saw this at 12:00 something in the morning CST...people keep posting it all over.
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05-30-2003, 06:47 AM
Video Games may be good for your reflexes but they ARE NOT good for you. Its jsut an excuse for game and computer addicts to continue playing hours non-stop. They are bad for your eyes and disrupt your social skills as well as social life. Like 1 and a half hour of games would be ok a day.
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05-30-2003, 07:25 AM
hes right about the social thing.
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05-30-2003, 09:45 AM
OOOO SHIT not the dancing dildo again!
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2nd Lieutenant
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05-30-2003, 09:55 AM
[quote="aNti hEro":4d034]hes right about the social thing.[/quote:4d034]
i second tha, thats why i only play mohaa aout once every two weeks, these forums are more addicting.
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Colonel
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05-30-2003, 11:08 AM
i have stoped playing mohaa dod and vc for a while, so now i am videogameless
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05-30-2003, 12:48 PM
Play chess... but not against the Chessmaster: he makes my rox0rz turn
into sux0rz. cry:
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