Gamers Could Have a Bigger Brain Than You
Fast Company's image from their blog post.
Depends on the video game. Scientists asked study participants who weren’t avid gamers to play a game called Space Fortress, and scanned two parts of the brain. The first region deals with the pleasure the brain feels at achieving a specific goal.
People who showed lots of activity in that region did better in early stages of the game, when they were still learning. Those that had lots of activity in both regions did best at both learning the game, and adapting to its changing complexity.
What does this mean? Just by looking at a brain scan, you could tell who’s going to better at learning certain skills and adapting those skills over time.
This information would be useful not only for ourselves, but in hiring decisions, too. Maybe video games aren’t such a bad idea.
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