mkrishnan
Mar 29, 2009, 11:19 PM
... Well, you know, that other passtime is supposed to make one go blind, so honestly, it seems like a double win. :D
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10206764-235.html
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that contrast sensitivity can be improved by simple training," Bavelier said. "When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it, and we've seen the positive effect remains even two years after the training was over."
The results appear to mirror those in a 2007 study that found people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved their spatial resolution by about 20 percent.
The findings are published in Nature Neuroscience (http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nn.2296.pdf), certainly indicating that the contrast with which Dr. Bavelier's work will be seen is, if nothing else, very good. ;)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-10206764-235.html
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that contrast sensitivity can be improved by simple training," Bavelier said. "When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it, and we've seen the positive effect remains even two years after the training was over."
The results appear to mirror those in a 2007 study that found people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved their spatial resolution by about 20 percent.
The findings are published in Nature Neuroscience (http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nn.2296.pdf), certainly indicating that the contrast with which Dr. Bavelier's work will be seen is, if nothing else, very good. ;)
