From Slate (9-14-10):
Playing violent, fast-paced video games may actually make you smarter , researchers say. Subjects who spent 50 hours playing Call of Duty 2 were able to complete timed computer tasks about a quarter more quickly, and substantially more accurately, than people who played the Sims. The results suggest that playing shoot-'em-ups increases people's ability to conduct probablistic reasoning and quickly infer useful facts from fuzzy data. "It's not the case that the action game players are trigger-happy and less accurate—they are just as accurate and also faster," said the neuroscientist who conducted the study . Researchers say the results suggest that playing video games could provide a useful performance boost to people like surgeons and soldiers who need to make quick, high-stakes decisions based on limited information.
Read original story in Bloomberg | Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
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