{"id":9132,"date":"2006-02-13T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/02\/13\/video-games-are-good-for-you.html"},"modified":"2006-02-13T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T17:57:08","slug":"video_games_are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/video_games_are.html","title":{"rendered":"Video games are good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"

The advantages in eye-hand coordination for folks who play video games have been known for quite some time. But video games also seem to improve mental skills at multi-tasking and ignoring extraneous information<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A body of research suggests that playing video games provides benefits similar to bilingualism in exercising the mind. Just as people fluent in two languages learn to suppress one language while speaking the other, so too are gamers adept at shutting out distractions to swiftly switch attention between different tasks.<\/p>\n

A new study of 100 university undergraduates in Toronto has found that video gamers consistently outperform their non-playing peers in a series of tricky mental tests. If they also happened to be bilingual, they were unbeatable.<\/p>\n

“The people who were video game players were better and faster performers,” said psychologist Ellen Bialystok, a research professor at York University. “Those who were bilingual and video game addicts scored best — particularly at the most difficult tasks.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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