How Video Games Reorganize Your Brain - Polidicks

[img]http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/kotaku.com/img/logo.png[/img] [url=http://kotaku.com/5647176/how-video-games-reorganize-your-brain/]Source[/url], [url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B8JH1-4XM6KH5-1&_user=10&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2010&_rdoc=14&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_origin=browse&_zone=rslt_list_item&_srch=doc-info%28%23toc%2343685%232010%23999539990%232358782%23FLA%23display%23Volume%29&_cdi=43685&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=18&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=fd3b71880926e2fa3cddff61fff61aed&searchtype=a]Source's source[/url] [release][img]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/09/500x_motherbrain.jpg[/img] How Video Games Reorganize Your 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. Researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at York University in Canada wanted to know how those improvements occurred. They assembled two groups of 13 test subjects. One group played video games for at least four hours a week over the previous three years. The other group did not play. Each of the 26 young men was placed in a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine and asked to complete a series of increasingly difficult visuomotor tasks. "By using high resolution brain imaging (fMRI), we were able to actually measure which brain areas were activated at a given time during the experiment," said Lauren Sergio, associate professor in the Faculty of Health at York University. "We tested how the skills learned from video game experience can transfer over to new tasks, rather than just looking at brain activity while the subject plays a video game." The results found that subjects without extensive gaming experience showed increased activity in the parietal cortex, typically associated with hand-eye coordination. The experienced gamers showed increased activity in the prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain. By extensively practicing the visuomotor tasks associated with video game play, the gamers changed the way their brains handle such activities. Gamer brains are special! The research grants new hope for the treatment of Alzheimer's patients, which often have trouble handling even simple visuomotor tasks. The researchers hope to enhance their findings in the future by determining how much change occurs per time played. They also plan to test female gamers for the same changes.[/release]

Hasn't this been known for years?

[QUOTE=The mouse;25025047]Hasn't this been known for years?[/QUOTE] Yeah, pretty much. There's always reiterating though

This means every gamer can become great pianists! Better start practicing now, guys!

[QUOTE=MrJazzy;25025060]This means every gamer can become great pianists! Better start practicing now, guys![/QUOTE] Now all those Halo fanboys can do something useful.

[QUOTE=The mouse;25025047]Hasn't this been known for years?[/QUOTE] It's been known that games increase hand-eye coordination. I don't think they knew we used a different part of the brain for the job though.

Yay gamers!

[QUOTE=Agent_Wesker;25025086]Now all those Halo fanboys can do something useful.[/QUOTE] They'll all be able to play their favourite song: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXeST0NMtic[/media]

Huzzah for repeating known knowledge(except those people who don't look this stuff up or even know it's possible)

To everyone saying this is old news, you should first realise that we knew the effect on hand eye coordination, but now how it effected the brain just that it did effect the brain.

[i]Gamer brains are special[/i] :3:

yayyy special :neckbeard:

[QUOTE=bravehat;25025562]To everyone saying this is old news, you should first realise that we knew the effect on hand eye coordination, [b]but now how it effected the brain just that it did effect the brain.[/b][/QUOTE] now we know that it increases activity in the hand eye coordination part of the brain. i never saw that coming.

Does that mean if I play something for hours I could be a better doctor? Blindfolded surgery sounds fun.

Wow, with 75% of americans being fat by 2020, the catholic church going bankrupt, and now with superior brain function, the lanky atheist nerdes of Facepunch are set to take over the world.

[QUOTE=Kybalt;25025909]now we know that it increases activity in the hand eye coordination part of the brain. i never saw that coming.[/QUOTE] If you read the artice you'd see there was LESS activity in the parietal cortex (which normally controls hand-eye-coordination) and MORE in the prefrontal cortex (which controls reasoning and decision making).

[QUOTE=Agent_Wesker;25025086]Now all those Halo fanboys can do something useful.[/QUOTE] Piano playing is more important than video game playing? I mean...it isn't like either of them quite help anyone

That explains why I always was so good at jerking off other guy's dicks while watching their face looking joyful.

i already knew i was "special" thats why i go to a "special" school :P

I wonder if PC gaming would be more beneficial...

Can it put all my porn folders in the very back of my head I don't want the mind readers seeing that

[QUOTE=DrLuke;25026366]That explains why I always was so good at jerking off other guy's dicks while watching their face looking joyful.[/QUOTE] :geno:

We is specul pepl :downs:

1 gamers 0 my mom

[QUOTE=windwakr;25027336]I actually saw a surgeon on TV who plays Monkey Ball before doing surgery.[/QUOTE] Hard IS hard.

I can write without looking at what I am writing, comes in [I]handy [/I]when taking notes.

:toot:

I don't know about my brain but it certainly has reoragnized my schedule. To do list: -VIDEO GAMES -everything else

Does fapping help also?

I highly doubt this is true for tubers on Modern Warfare 2.