Coming straight from the video game-loving eggheads from Queen Mary University of London, is a bit of research suggesting that playing strategy games like StarCraft...
...Civilization...
...and even Plants vs Zombies...
...may boost your noggin power.
Here's what went down: researchers wrangled up 72 volunteers to play 40 hours of video games, over a 6-8 week period. Not that bad. However (fun catch here), most of the volunteers were women...
...because they needed participants that played less than two hours a week, and as a result, they found very few males that fit that criteria. Lol, I play like...I play a lot...I play a lot of games.
Way to go, Guys! Imagine being that one guy that didn't play video games much, and walked into the study, only to be surrounded by gaming ladies!!
So, the 72 people were split up. Half played StarCraft, and half played The Sims...
...and after the fact, researchers found that the StarCraft players scored the silly Sim-ers.
Strategy game players' performance and psychological tests increased, and they leveled up their speed and accuracy in cognitive flexibility tests. I like the sound of cognitive flexibility; there's this cute chick, she's so cognitively flexible, she put her medulla oblongata behind the cerebellum.
So, basically what happened is that they (the StarCraft players) became multitasking superstars. Additionally, researchers discovered that the brave souls who journeyed through the game at higher difficulty settings scored higher on the test than those pantzies scrolling through the easy settings; smarter, braver, multitaskier. We're just baby steps away from Ender's Game, People!
Hopefully, these games (as opposed to twitch response first shooters) require a difference kind of thinking, planning, and strategery; as a result, brain agility gets to work out. Hold on, I think my brain's sweating......no, it's just brain fluid.
Researcher, Dr. Brian Glass said:
Also, Dr. Glass goes on to explain that there are some mighty intriguing possibilities connected to these findings. He says...
...and whether these cognitive boosts are...
...once we have that understanding...
I need to play some video games.
Look, we're just bettering the world through hours of gaming. Seriously though, go do your laundry; but before you go, what other ways do you think video games help slowly turn us into super versions of ourselves? Leave your interesting and creative response in the comment section down below. After you're done with that task, click the share button.
...Civilization...
...and even Plants vs Zombies...
...may boost your noggin power.
Here's what went down: researchers wrangled up 72 volunteers to play 40 hours of video games, over a 6-8 week period. Not that bad. However (fun catch here), most of the volunteers were women...
...because they needed participants that played less than two hours a week, and as a result, they found very few males that fit that criteria. Lol, I play like...I play a lot...I play a lot of games.
Way to go, Guys! Imagine being that one guy that didn't play video games much, and walked into the study, only to be surrounded by gaming ladies!!
So, the 72 people were split up. Half played StarCraft, and half played The Sims...
...and after the fact, researchers found that the StarCraft players scored the silly Sim-ers.
Strategy game players' performance and psychological tests increased, and they leveled up their speed and accuracy in cognitive flexibility tests. I like the sound of cognitive flexibility; there's this cute chick, she's so cognitively flexible, she put her medulla oblongata behind the cerebellum.
So, basically what happened is that they (the StarCraft players) became multitasking superstars. Additionally, researchers discovered that the brave souls who journeyed through the game at higher difficulty settings scored higher on the test than those pantzies scrolling through the easy settings; smarter, braver, multitaskier. We're just baby steps away from Ender's Game, People!
Hopefully, these games (as opposed to twitch response first shooters) require a difference kind of thinking, planning, and strategery; as a result, brain agility gets to work out. Hold on, I think my brain's sweating......no, it's just brain fluid.
Researcher, Dr. Brian Glass said:
Also, Dr. Glass goes on to explain that there are some mighty intriguing possibilities connected to these findings. He says...
...and whether these cognitive boosts are...
...once we have that understanding...
I need to play some video games.
Look, we're just bettering the world through hours of gaming. Seriously though, go do your laundry; but before you go, what other ways do you think video games help slowly turn us into super versions of ourselves? Leave your interesting and creative response in the comment section down below. After you're done with that task, click the share button.
