Video games are good for you!
 

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.

It's on the front page....

Dammit people are posting this EVERYWHERE!

IT'S NOT NEW PEOPLE THEY HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR YEARS!

I knew this lol, I figured it out myself.

This is why I own my friends in thumb wrestling.

I saw this at 12:00 something in the morning CST...people keep posting it all over.

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.

hes right about the social thing.

OOOO SHIT not the dancing dildo again!

[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.

i have stoped playing mohaa dod and vc for a while, so now i am videogameless

Play chess... but not against the Chessmaster: he makes my rox0rz turn
into sux0rz. cry: