Hours spent
at the video gaming console probably train the brain to make better and faster
use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers.
“Gamers see
the world differently,” said Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of
psychiatry in the Duke School of Medicine. “They are able to extract more
information from a visual scene.”
Earlier
research by others has found that gamers are quicker at responding to visual
stimuli and can track more items than non-gamers. When playing a game,
especially one of the “first-person shooters,” a gamer makes “probabilistic
inferences” about what he/she is seeing — good guy or bad guy, moving left or
moving right — as rapidly as he/she can.
This study
was supported by grants from the Army Research Office, the Department of
Homeland Security, DARPA, and Nike Inc.
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